Cybernetic Systems in Practice

In the concluding chap. “Cybernetic Systems in Practice” we will get to know cybernetic systems from different areas of practice. We will focus on four dominant environmental areas that affect us all—nature, technology, the economy and society. These will be concretised through a wide variety of “application scenarios”, from control circuits of the human organism and the forest ecosystem to control mechanisms of various technical apparatuses and tools, economic models and management tools, to models in sociology/psychology, “cybernetic governance” or even in the field of the military. A brief overview of the cybernetic “status quo” of these four environmental areas is given as an introduction.