Cybernetics in the Third Millennium (C3M)
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Beginning in September 2002, I have been sharing a free E-zine, "Cybernetics in the Third Millennium" (C3M), about 1,000 - 18,000 words per issue and about one issue every other month. If you are interested in a free subscription to this electronic newsletter, please email abs@well.com with C3M in the subject.

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1 1 Sep. 2002 "What's new in cybernetics and systems theory in the last 12 years?" 3,401 c3m_0101.txt c3m_0101.html

1 2 Oct. 2002 What Hath Wolfram Wrought? 1,298 c3m_0102.txt c3m_0102.html

1 3 Nov. 2002 War of the Worldviews: Manipulating Visual Myths 7,177 c3m_0103.txt c3m_0103.html

1 4 Dec. 2002 Mailbag: Feeding Back Your Feedback 1,956 c3m_0104.txt c3m_0104.html

2 1 Jan. 2003 Why I Think Wolfram Is Right 7,079 c3m_0201.txt c3m_0201.html

2 2 Feb. 2003 Biological Computing: The Next Big Thing? (Part One) 4,825 c3m_0202.txt c3m_0202.html

2 3 Mar. 2003 Biological Computing: The Next Big Thing? (Part Two) 5,085 c3m_0203.txt c3m_0203.html

2 4 Apr. 2003 What Ever Happened to Cybernetics? 5,201 c3m_0204.txt c3m_0204.html

2 5 May 2003 Some Postscripts 3,969 c3m_0205.txt c3m_0205.html

2 6 June 2003 Report from the 2002 International SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Graphics and Interactive Techniques, San Antonio ~ or ~ Steers, Beers and the Nth Dimension 5,568 c3m_0206.txt c3m_0206.html

2 7 July 2003 Remembrance of Things Proust (Part One) 5,743 c3m_0207.txt c3m_0207.html

2 8 Aug. 2003 Remembrance of Things Proust (Part Two) 5,648 c3m_0208.txt c3m_0208.html

2 9 Sep. 2003 Do Nothing, Oscillate, or Blow Up: An Exploration of the Laplace Transform 6,631 c3m_0209.txt c3m_0209.html

2 10 Oct. 2003 Some More Postscripts 1,668 c3m_0210.txt c3m_0210.html

2 11 Nov. 2003 War Games, Money Games, New Games and Meta Games 9,623 c3m_0211.txt c3m_0211.html

3 1 Jan. 2004 Sp@mm, S*P*a*M, Spaaaaam, S.p,a.m, Memes, S\p/a/m, s=p=a-m, Bulkmail, SSppaamm, Am-spay, Viruses, Spizam, Immune Systems, S-p_a-m, Prions and $p&m 7,453 c3m_0301.txt c3m_0301.html

3 2 Feb. 2004 A Few Odds and Ends 1,481 c3m_0302.txt c3m_0302.html

3 3 Mar. 2004 Clues from the Coin-op Convention ~ and ~ Report on the Robot Races (Part One) 3,701 c3m_0303.txt c3m_0303.html

3 4 Apr. 2004 Clues from the Coin-op Convention ~ and ~ Report on the Robot Races (Part Two) 7,665 c3m_0304.txt c3m_0304.html

3 5 Jun. 2004 Six Degrees of Buddy Hackett 2,173 c3m_0305.txt c3m_0305.html

3 6 Jul. 2004 Goof Gas ~ or ~ Holding the Dream Hostage (Part One) 4,362 c3m_0306.txt c3m_0306.html

3 7 Aug. 2004 Goof Gas ~ or ~ Holding the Dream Hostage (Part Two) 10,484 c3m_0307.txt c3m_0307.html

3 8 Sep. 2004 All I Know About Operations Research I Learned from the Walt Disney Company 7,751 c3m_0308.txt c3m_0308.html

3 9 Oct. 2004 Ecological Crisis, World Models, and the Nature of Proof 11,690 c3m_0309.txt c3m_0309.html

3 10 Nov. 2004 Bateson and Me (Part One of Three) 4,955 c3m_0310.txt c3m_0310.html

3 11 Dec. 2004 Bateson and Me (Part Two of Three) 8,651 c3m_0311.txt c3m_0311.html

4 1 Jan. 2005 Bateson and Me (Part Three of Three) 10,375 c3m_0401.txt c3m_0401.html

4 2 Feb. 2005 We Pride Ourselves On Service 7,170 c3m_0402.txt c3m_0402.html

4 3 Mar. 2005 Skeleton Key to Pop Culture 4,204 c3m_0403.txt c3m_0403.html

4 4 Apr. 2005 Some Changes 1,096 c3m_0404.txt c3m_0404.html

4 5 May 2005 Cyberpunks in Cyberspace ~ or ~ The Future of Science Fiction 2,812 c3m_0405.txt c3m_0405.html

4 6 July 2005 Cyber U 4,119 c3m_0406.txt c3m_0406.html

4 7 Sep. 2005 DV For Me, C? (Part One) 7,673 c3m_0407.txt c3m_0407.html

4 7a Sep. 2005 Addendum: That Reminds Me of a Story 700 c3m_0407a.txt c3m_0407a.html

4 8 Nov. 2005 DV For Me, C? (Part Two) 7,672 c3m_0408.txt c3m_0408.html

5 1 Jan. 2006 DV For Me, C? (Part Three) 16,275 c3m_0501.txt c3m_0501.html

5 2 Mar. 2006 Even Better Than the Real Thing 11,020 c3m_0502.txt c3m_0502.html

5 3 May 2006 The Eastern Question (Part One) 7,242 c3m_0503.txt c3m_0503.html

5 4 July 2006 The Eastern Question (Part Two) 15,685 c3m_0504.txt c3m_0504.html

5 5 Sep. 2006 Back and Forth 2,306 c3m_0505.txt c3m_0505.html

6 1 Jan. 2007 Everything Has To Go Somewhere ~ or ~ Eigenvectors and You 17,299 c3m_0601.txt c3m_0601.html

6 2 May 2007 The Dark Side of Enlightenment ~ or ~ Dispatches From the Mind Control Wars (Part One of Two) 12,913 c3m_0602.txt c3m_0602.html

6 3 July 2007 The Dark Side of Enlightenment ~ or ~ Dispatches From the Mind Control Wars (Part Two of Two) 12,629 c3m_0603.txt c3m_0603.html

6 4 Sep. 2007 The Street and the Square ~ or ~ Two Views of the ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Conference and Exhibition 351 * c3m_0604.txt c3m_0604.html

7 1 Jan. 2008 Top Tech ~ or ~ Architecture in Buildings and Software (Part One) 13,817 c3m_0701.txt c3m_0701.html

8 1 Apr. 2009 Top Tech ~ or ~ Architecture in Buildings and Software (Part Two) 11,025 c3m_0801.txt c3m_0801.html

8 2 Jul. 2009 Top Tech ~ or ~ Architecture in Buildings and Software (Part Three) 16,018 c3m_0802.txt c3m_0802.html

8 3 Dec. 2009 If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part One) 10,567 c3m_0803.txt c3m_0803.html

9 1 Feb. 2011 Reboot {& etc.} — If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Two) 7,782 c3m_0901.html

9 2 Apr. 2011 Stop the Presses! Remembering Heinz Von Foerster {& etc.} — If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Three) 7,084 c3m_0902.html

10 1 Mar. 2012 Modeling ODEs In a Spreadsheet Explained In 371 Words ; Re: Joyce ; License To Kill — Some Thoughts On the Assassination of Bin Laden ; The Radiant City: What I Learned About Bucky Fuller, EPCOT and the Moderns While Researching Virtual Worlds 9,579 c3m_1001.html

10 2 July 2012 Excusions In Graph Theory ; Book Review: The Information by James Gleick ; If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Four) 8,223 c3m_1002.html

10 3 Nov. 2012 Teaching Calculus to a 16-Year-Old 8,922 c3m_1003.html c3m_1003_P.html

11 1 Jul. 2013 What Just Happened? ; Further Excursions in Graph Theory and Social Networks ; If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Five) 12,171 c3m_1101.html c3m_1101_P.html

12 1 Jul. 2015 Uncrackable Encryption for the Masses ; If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Six) 10,285 c3m_1201.html c3m_1201_P.html

12 2 Dec. 2015 A Small Essay On Big Data 5,558 c3m_1202.html c3m_1202_P.html

13 1 Jul. 2016 An Update on Uncrackable Encryption for the Masses ; If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Seven) 12,357 c3m_1301.html c3m_1301_P.html

14 1 Dec. 2017 Explorations in Machine Learning 6,392 c3m_1401.html c3m_1401_P.html

15 1 Mar. 2021 A Systems Curriculum Revolution ; 21st Century Preservation 16,763 c3m_1501.html c3m_1501_P.html

16 1 Dec. 2022 A Curriculum for Cybernetics and Systems Theory Version 2.0 ; I Finally Got a Machine Learning Program To Learn Something ; If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Eight) 12,155 c3m_1601.html c3m_1601_P.html

17 1 Mar. 2023 A Glass Bead Game ; If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Nine) 8,496 c3m_1701.html c3m_1701_P.html

17 2 July 2023 The Parts Left Out of the Stewart Brand Documentary ; Playing With Geodesic Polyhedra 13,786 c3m_1702.html c3m_1702_P.html

17 3 Oct. 2023 Report on SIGGRAPH 2023: The Premier Conference & Exhibition on Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques ; If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Ten) 12,413 c3m_1703.html c3m_1703_P.html

18 1 Feb. 2024 Visualizing My Ancestors ; If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Eleven) 11,787 c3m_1801.html c3m_1801_P.html

volume	number	date	title	words	text link	HTML link	printer friendly
1	1	Sep. 2002	"What's new in cybernetics and systems theory in the last 12 years?"	3,401	`c3m_0101.txt`	`c3m_0101.html`
1	2	Oct. 2002	What Hath Wolfram Wrought?	1,298	`c3m_0102.txt`	`c3m_0102.html`
1	3	Nov. 2002	War of the Worldviews: Manipulating Visual Myths	7,177	`c3m_0103.txt`	`c3m_0103.html`
1	4	Dec. 2002	Mailbag: Feeding Back Your Feedback	1,956	`c3m_0104.txt`	`c3m_0104.html`
2	1	Jan. 2003	Why I Think Wolfram Is Right	7,079	`c3m_0201.txt`	`c3m_0201.html`
2	2	Feb. 2003	Biological Computing: The Next Big Thing? (Part One)	4,825	`c3m_0202.txt`	`c3m_0202.html`
2	3	Mar. 2003	Biological Computing: The Next Big Thing? (Part Two)	5,085	`c3m_0203.txt`	`c3m_0203.html`
2	4	Apr. 2003	What Ever Happened to Cybernetics?	5,201	`c3m_0204.txt`	`c3m_0204.html`
2	5	May 2003	Some Postscripts	3,969	`c3m_0205.txt`	`c3m_0205.html`
2	6	June 2003	Report from the 2002 International SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Graphics and Interactive Techniques, San Antonio ~ or ~ Steers, Beers and the Nth Dimension	5,568	`c3m_0206.txt`	`c3m_0206.html`
2	7	July 2003	Remembrance of Things Proust (Part One)	5,743	`c3m_0207.txt`	`c3m_0207.html`
2	8	Aug. 2003	Remembrance of Things Proust (Part Two)	5,648	`c3m_0208.txt`	`c3m_0208.html`
2	9	Sep. 2003	Do Nothing, Oscillate, or Blow Up: An Exploration of the Laplace Transform	6,631	`c3m_0209.txt`	`c3m_0209.html`
2	10	Oct. 2003	Some More Postscripts	1,668	`c3m_0210.txt`	`c3m_0210.html`
2	11	Nov. 2003	War Games, Money Games, New Games and Meta Games	9,623	`c3m_0211.txt`	`c3m_0211.html`
3	1	Jan. 2004	Sp@mm, SPa*M, Spaaaaam, S.p,a.m, Memes, S\p/a/m, s=p=a-m, Bulkmail, SSppaamm, Am-spay, Viruses, Spizam, Immune Systems, S-p_a-m, Prions and $p&m	7,453	`c3m_0301.txt`	`c3m_0301.html`
3	2	Feb. 2004	A Few Odds and Ends	1,481	`c3m_0302.txt`	`c3m_0302.html`
3	3	Mar. 2004	Clues from the Coin-op Convention ~ and ~ Report on the Robot Races (Part One)	3,701	`c3m_0303.txt`	`c3m_0303.html`
3	4	Apr. 2004	Clues from the Coin-op Convention ~ and ~ Report on the Robot Races (Part Two)	7,665	`c3m_0304.txt`	`c3m_0304.html`
3	5	Jun. 2004	Six Degrees of Buddy Hackett	2,173	`c3m_0305.txt`	`c3m_0305.html`
3	6	Jul. 2004	Goof Gas ~ or ~ Holding the Dream Hostage (Part One)	4,362	`c3m_0306.txt`	`c3m_0306.html`
3	7	Aug. 2004	Goof Gas ~ or ~ Holding the Dream Hostage (Part Two)	10,484	`c3m_0307.txt`	`c3m_0307.html`
3	8	Sep. 2004	All I Know About Operations Research I Learned from the Walt Disney Company	7,751	`c3m_0308.txt`	`c3m_0308.html`
3	9	Oct. 2004	Ecological Crisis, World Models, and the Nature of Proof	11,690	`c3m_0309.txt`	`c3m_0309.html`
3	10	Nov. 2004	Bateson and Me (Part One of Three)	4,955	`c3m_0310.txt`	`c3m_0310.html`
3	11	Dec. 2004	Bateson and Me (Part Two of Three)	8,651	`c3m_0311.txt`	`c3m_0311.html`
4	1	Jan. 2005	Bateson and Me (Part Three of Three)	10,375	`c3m_0401.txt`	`c3m_0401.html`
4	2	Feb. 2005	We Pride Ourselves On Service	7,170	`c3m_0402.txt`	`c3m_0402.html`
4	3	Mar. 2005	Skeleton Key to Pop Culture	4,204	`c3m_0403.txt`	`c3m_0403.html`
4	4	Apr. 2005	Some Changes	1,096	`c3m_0404.txt`	`c3m_0404.html`
4	5	May 2005	Cyberpunks in Cyberspace ~ or ~ The Future of Science Fiction	2,812	`c3m_0405.txt`	`c3m_0405.html`
4	6	July 2005	Cyber U	4,119	`c3m_0406.txt`	`c3m_0406.html`
4	7	Sep. 2005	DV For Me, C? (Part One)	7,673	`c3m_0407.txt`	`c3m_0407.html`
4	7a	Sep. 2005	Addendum: That Reminds Me of a Story	700	`c3m_0407a.txt`	`c3m_0407a.html`
4	8	Nov. 2005	DV For Me, C? (Part Two)	7,672	`c3m_0408.txt`	`c3m_0408.html`
5	1	Jan. 2006	DV For Me, C? (Part Three)	16,275	`c3m_0501.txt`	`c3m_0501.html`
5	2	Mar. 2006	Even Better Than the Real Thing	11,020	`c3m_0502.txt`	`c3m_0502.html`
5	3	May 2006	The Eastern Question (Part One)	7,242	`c3m_0503.txt`	`c3m_0503.html`
5	4	July 2006	The Eastern Question (Part Two)	15,685	`c3m_0504.txt`	`c3m_0504.html`
5	5	Sep. 2006	Back and Forth	2,306	`c3m_0505.txt`	`c3m_0505.html`
6	1	Jan. 2007	Everything Has To Go Somewhere ~ or ~ Eigenvectors and You	17,299	`c3m_0601.txt`	`c3m_0601.html`
6	2	May 2007	The Dark Side of Enlightenment ~ or ~ Dispatches From the Mind Control Wars (Part One of Two)	12,913	`c3m_0602.txt`	`c3m_0602.html`
6	3	July 2007	The Dark Side of Enlightenment ~ or ~ Dispatches From the Mind Control Wars (Part Two of Two)	12,629	`c3m_0603.txt`	`c3m_0603.html`
6	4	Sep. 2007	The Street and the Square ~ or ~ Two Views of the ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Conference and Exhibition	351 *	`c3m_0604.txt`	`c3m_0604.html`
7	1	Jan. 2008	Top Tech ~ or ~ Architecture in Buildings and Software (Part One)	13,817	`c3m_0701.txt`	`c3m_0701.html`
8	1	Apr. 2009	Top Tech ~ or ~ Architecture in Buildings and Software (Part Two)	11,025	`c3m_0801.txt`	`c3m_0801.html`
8	2	Jul. 2009	Top Tech ~ or ~ Architecture in Buildings and Software (Part Three)	16,018	`c3m_0802.txt`	`c3m_0802.html`
8	3	Dec. 2009	If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part One)	10,567	`c3m_0803.txt`	`c3m_0803.html`
9	1	Feb. 2011	Reboot {& etc.} — If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Two)	7,782		`c3m_0901.html`
9	2	Apr. 2011	Stop the Presses! Remembering Heinz Von Foerster {& etc.} — If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Three)	7,084		`c3m_0902.html`
10	1	Mar. 2012	Modeling ODEs In a Spreadsheet Explained In 371 Words ; Re: Joyce ; License To Kill — Some Thoughts On the Assassination of Bin Laden ; The Radiant City: What I Learned About Bucky Fuller, EPCOT and the Moderns While Researching Virtual Worlds	9,579		`c3m_1001.html`
10	2	July 2012	Excusions In Graph Theory ; Book Review: The Information by James Gleick ; If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Four)	8,223		`c3m_1002.html`
10	3	Nov. 2012	Teaching Calculus to a 16-Year-Old	8,922		`c3m_1003.html`	`c3m_1003_P.html`
11	1	Jul. 2013	What Just Happened? ; Further Excursions in Graph Theory and Social Networks ; If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Five)	12,171		`c3m_1101.html`	`c3m_1101_P.html`
12	1	Jul. 2015	Uncrackable Encryption for the Masses ; If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Six)	10,285		`c3m_1201.html`	`c3m_1201_P.html`
12	2	Dec. 2015	A Small Essay On Big Data	5,558		`c3m_1202.html`	`c3m_1202_P.html`
13	1	Jul. 2016	An Update on Uncrackable Encryption for the Masses ; If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Seven)	12,357		`c3m_1301.html`	`c3m_1301_P.html`
14	1	Dec. 2017	Explorations in Machine Learning	6,392		`c3m_1401.html`	`c3m_1401_P.html`
15	1	Mar. 2021	A Systems Curriculum Revolution ; 21st Century Preservation	16,763		`c3m_1501.html`	`c3m_1501_P.html`
16	1	Dec. 2022	A Curriculum for Cybernetics and Systems Theory Version 2.0 ; I Finally Got a Machine Learning Program To Learn Something ; If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Eight)	12,155		`c3m_1601.html`	`c3m_1601_P.html`
17	1	Mar. 2023	A Glass Bead Game ; If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Nine)	8,496		`c3m_1701.html`	`c3m_1701_P.html`
17	2	July 2023	The Parts Left Out of the Stewart Brand Documentary ; Playing With Geodesic Polyhedra	13,786		`c3m_1702.html`	`c3m_1702_P.html`
17	3	Oct. 2023	Report on SIGGRAPH 2023: The Premier Conference & Exhibition on Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques ; If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Ten)	12,413		`c3m_1703.html`	`c3m_1703_P.html`
18	1	Feb. 2024	Visualizing My Ancestors ; If It's Just a Virtual Actor, Then Why Am I Feeling Real Emotions? (Part Eleven)	11,787		`c3m_1801.html`	`c3m_1801_P.html`

This e-Zine is a continuation of the ideas in A Curriculum for Cybernetics and Systems Theory:

people.well.com/user/abs/Cyb/archive/Curriculum2.0/Curriculum2.0.html

by Alan B. Scrivener.
Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024 by Alan B. Scrivener
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Cybernetics in the Third Millennium (C3M) e-Zine archive

Cybernetics in the Third Millennium (C3M)
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