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Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by, on track to your destination.

Not a care in the world as you simply lean back.

And before you know it, you're there.

This is how travels should feel.

And on our trains, it does.

Avanti West Coast,

feel good travel.

Music Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the Eastern Border.

This episode is made especially for our listener, Ian Boutreau, who wanted me to give this to you in a written form, because he's going to post it in the journal,

or something, but life events threw me away a bit, and I decided that, hey, this material

is as interesting as it possibly can. I'll be using some materials from the Wilson Quarterly

and other computing journals for this episode,

but I'm pretty sure you'll find them kind of nice and interesting, especially when it comes to Tetris and the modern day stuff.

See, in 1948, the MIT mathematician Nobert Wiener published Cybernetics, a book that heralded the coming information age.

Cybernetics, according to Wiener, is, quote, the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine.

Just as human body sweats or shakes to regulate its temperature, the rumba, vacuum-king robot, rotates and continues in a different

direction after hitting a wall.

In either case, both the animal and the machine use information, feedback, and control,

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