Cybernetics- is something which is not new and it is there since 1834, but sounded amazing to me when I started relating few concepts. I’ll try to explain why the entire concept is intriguing as well as inviting. Gareth Morgan explained cybernetics with a simple idea:

Q. How do you pick up an object?
Conventionally we may think that our hands, guided by our eyes,move directly toward the object.
Cybernectics suggests not. We pick an object by actually avoiding not picking it up!
This action occurs through a process of error elimination, whereby deviations between hand and object are reduced at each and every stage of the process, so that in the end no error remains.

I remember a student saying, “I passed this exams because I feared I might fail.” Boxing champions admit that they punched damn hard to avoid getting knocked out. You might not consider me wrong when I say that you managed to ride a bicycle to avoid falling off.

This simple idea guides us to understand how technologies are not to be designed, so that newer technologies can be made. In fact very complex ideas have simple scientific approaches. Edison, the genius, claimed that none of his inventions came by accident. He used to see a worthwhile need to be met and made trial after trial until he got what he needed. Everytime he failed, he knew all the ways which won’t give him the correct answer and it helped him to eliminate wrong choices. When I was preparing for GMAT, I was taught the golden rule of Process of Elimination, which helped me to guess the right answer, even when I didn’t know it!

These ideas also help me to understand why professors at universities take cases of failure more closely than cases of success. Failures help students to understand how a system is not to be designed. It also means breaking old-non-working patterns; I call it CREATIVITY. The lastest slogan at MBS is: Apply Original Thinking. Now you know why :)

In this video, CEO of Google, Schmidt, explains the idea of Web3.0. If I apply ideas of cybernetics to answer how web3.0 will be developed, I would simply suggest how not to think of making applications as the way they are made for web2.0. Sounds weird and difficult, but developers need to think of the same problems from fresh perspectives. They can leverage the idea of negative thinking creatively and make something which has never been done..

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