Cybernetics needs a comeback. It was the most important and underexplored attempt of creating an unified attempt of interpreting reality having at its core ubiquitous concepts such as systems, information and complexity. Unfortunately we've been stuck with a reductionist paradigm for a long time, and most people don't seem to care much about the obvious presence of systems all around (and even inside) them.
I have a physical copy of this! My parents got it for me at a garage sale in the 80s when I was a little nipper.<p>It has a great programming language “tower of babel” illustration.<p>It wasn’t until years later that I realized it was a Soviet science ecosystem book. Some of the content should have been a giveaway …
Had the original (I think it was a gift), one of my favorites, got me interested in computers… There were things you couldn’t (easily) do or have in the Soviet Union, but learn things, OMG…