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means The study of how systems — mechanical, biological, or organizational — regulate themselves through feedback and control.

from Coined in the late 1940s by mathematician Norbert Wiener, who built it from the Greek 'kybernetes,' meaning 'steersman' or 'helmsman' — the person who guides a ship by constantly correcting course based on feedback from wind and current. That same Greek root, via Latin 'gubernator,' also steers its way into the word 'govern' — making cybernetics and government etymological cousins, both rooted in the art of keeping a vessel, or a nation, from drifting off course.