cybernetic-governance

The chapter traces the evolution of information management challenges in governance, highlighting the inadequacies of traditional government structures due to rigidity, delayed information, and poor variety attenuation. Stafford Beer proposes a cybernetic approach to governance that models economic and social systems dynamically and recursively, involving workers and utilizing real-time data flows to enable proactive, adaptive control. The chapter also discusses practical implementation through dynamic simulation and addresses criticisms, illustrating the approach's feasibility and urgency despite institutional and political obstacles, as exemplified by the Chilean experience.