Show Cy Cybernetics Cybernetics Ever hear henr of it Many people haven't If your dictionary is ismore ismore ismore more than ten years old chances are you wont won't find the word listed But the science of cybernetics one one of the latest and most exciting fields of out far technology tech has to do basically with the improvement of the flow lIow of communications communications communications or information It was through the science of cybernetics for example that the electronic computer or calculator calculator ator was invented A computer is simply simply sim sim- ply speaking a gadget through which it is possible to pour an nn enormous amount of information at a fantastic rate of speed It was also through the science of cybernetics that the coaxial coaxial co axial cable was invented It used to tobe tobe tobe be that a single message could be transmitted trans in one direction over oyer the telephone telephone tele tele- phone line Today thousands of mes mes- sages or bits of information can Cnn be transmitted over a n single coaxial cable at the same time and rather miraculously miraculously miraculously mir mir- it would seem be unscrambled led into clear distinct and separate messages messages mes mes- messages sages at nt the other othe end of the cable Now another advance has hns been made Cybernetic scientists in the laboratories ies of the American Telephone and Tele Tele- Bell Company have come up with a n simple two inch absolutely empty pipe that can carry simultaneous telephone conversations Buried four feet underground with automatic in built-in boosters every 20 miles the Millimeter pipe will in years to come transmit not only phone conversations con con- but TV shows electrocardiograms electrocardiograms grams newspaper photographs computer computer com com- puter data and all nil sorts of things all nIl at the same time |