Cybernetics in the Third Millennium (C3M)
e-Zine archive

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

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

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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