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		jhbadger on July 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cyberdecks (2013) Cyber actually means self-regulating. It comes from the Greek for "good at steering". Cybernetics was the study of self-regulating systems. I'm not sure where computers and high tech got in the picture other than the fact that cybernetics researchers used computers to analyze things.

yencabulator on July 31, 2023 | [–]

Origin of the word cyberpunk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_(novel)

Anyone have a reference for when the cyber- prefix of cybernetics mutated from meaning control theory to "of or relating to computers and internet"?

29athrowaway on July 30, 2023 | [–]

Certainly it was not the connotation given by the pioneers of the genre.

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