About cybernetics, its roots and future

Norbert Wiener and Warren S. McCulloch are Presented as the main contempora ry initiators of cybernetics. Wiener chose Leibniz as "patron saint" of cyb ernetics because of his works on general logics and binary arithmetics. On the contrary McCulloch chose Descartes, having observed the intervention of a feedback in his conceptions about perception and consecutive action. The two paradigmatic views of Wiener and McCulloch may indicate two streams of evolution for cybernetics, leading on the one side, to general views about perception and action or "epistemo-praxiology" and on the other side, to c onsiderations about interacting systems such as a generalized world-wide ne twork comparable to a "creature of gigantic dimensions" covering the globe.