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Servomechanism:
“Servomechanisms responding to sensed error in first one direction and then the other, successively correcting the steering-- first this way, then that way-- averaging an accomplished course halfway between. The variations get finer and finer, trending toward but never attaining, ‘absolute straightness.’ This is the essence of cybernetics. This way humans reached the Moon. It is the essence of all life growth…”
