I am working on the book to be published by Springer
The use of feedback control in technology goes back at least to the Hellenistic period when a water clock was constructed. Feedback was the central concept of Norbert Wiener’s half-forgotten Cybernetics. Positive feedback, on the one hand, catalyzes growth; on the other hand, it may amplify minor initial differences leading to such dramatic catastrophes as epileptic seizures, massive earthquakes and tsunamis, climate catastrophes, and social unrest. Conversely, negative feedback is known to have stabilizing effects. There is a narrow border between destruction and prosperity: to ensure reasonable growth but avoid existential risk, we must find the fine-tuned balance between positive and negative feedback. The book offers an exciting non-technical intellectual journey around applying feedback control to the emergence and management of crises from dynamical diseases to natural and social disasters.
From RANKING to REPAIR! 