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In the late 40s, new science was born, namely cybernetics. It's main goal was to show the qualitative unity of interactions in living and non-living systems, regardless the scale. In western democracies, cybernetics has been abandoned relatively quickly whereas in eastern socialist countries it kept it's respect much longer. The author presents the main ideas of cybernetics, main fields of research...