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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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TECHNOSPHERE 1)4)

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The growingly interconnected set of man-made artifacts

It includes for example factories, administrative buildings, schools, etc, but also mobile artifacts like vehicles and aircrafts and the network of roads, railways tracks, airfields, radio and television links, etc… needed for communication in general

The technosphere is now becoming globally integrated on the planetary level

It is steadily evolving under the impact of scientific discoveries and technical innovation. It is also becoming evermore dependent of a massive and permanent supply of cheap energy. Such a dependence could imply the need for deep global mutations in the long-term future

Moreover, the harmonious integration of the technosphere within the planetary ecosystem (ecosphere) is still an unresolved problem

Finally, the ever expanding technosphere generates deep economic and socio-cultural changes, many of them unforeseen and unplanned

The future evolution or final stabilization of the world technosphere remains an open issue.

Categories

  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

Publisher

Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]

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