Ideas and people

The family tree and the people, drawn as one. Start from an idea and see who is named on it and what it grew from; start from a person and see who they worked with and the ideas they are on. Switch layers off to see one thing clearly.

The ideas and their lineage are my family tree; the lines between people are Hugh Dubberly’s Social Graph of Cybernetics, used with credit, with his notes on his graph. Every line says where it comes from, and a lineage the sources dispute is drawn dashed or dotted. For the people alone, the people of cybernetics.

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Every idea, with its people

Era by era, as on the family tree: what each idea grew from, the people named on it, and the paper behind it where a primer covers one. An idea’s name opens it in the graph above.

Before the name 1788 to 1934 · 6

The roots 1943 to 1956 · 9

First branches 1950s to 1970s · 14

Second order 1967 to 1990s · 10

On the shelf today now · 12

In numbers

LayerOn the graph
Ideas51
People128
Labs, schools and conferences23
Papers with a primer16
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Lineage between ideas the family tree 74
Named on an idea the family tree 106
Worked together Dubberly’s Social Graph of Cybernetics 90
Influence Dubberly’s Social Graph of Cybernetics 26
Organizations and events Dubberly’s Social Graph of Cybernetics 53
Wrote the primers 23
The paper behind an idea the primers 13

Ideas and lineage as checked for the family tree; people’s lines as Dubberly publishes them, with a ✓ where Wikidata also records one. Who wrote a paper comes from the primers’ own credits.

The other maps: the family tree, the ideas and their lineage · the people, who worked with whom · the cybernetics map, what covers each idea