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12017-11-29T08:41:40-08:00Ned Prutzer20e45b2203b7b23eba9cadfbd18b0776a2f35e95259772A diagram from Umpleby's dissertation,Stuart Umpleby, Some Applications of Cybernetics to Social Systems (1975), focused on second order cybernetics.plain2017-12-11T08:37:26-08:00Ned Prutzer20e45b2203b7b23eba9cadfbd18b0776a2f35e95