Hayles's article conveys various interesting aspects of cybernetics. At first, the article stated that cybernetics developed greatly in the 1930s, however instead of vanishing altogether, it spread onto "a broad alluvial plain of intellectual inquiry", meaning cybernetics has inspired and laid the foundation as the general framework. In addition, cybernetics is the center of media studies due to its focus on the flow of information between human and machines.
Secondly, the idea of decon-textualization of information is a very impressive and essential move. Upon this concept, many fields can be applied such as communication theory, linguistics, psychology... Lastly, the vision of human inhabiting a device which seems revolutionary has now become accessible in many forms by modern techonology.
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