"CIA research revealed that the term 'cybernetics' was coined by the Father of Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, in 1948. In Mr. Wiener's words, 'We have decided to call the entire field of control and communication theory, whether in the machine or the animal, by the name cybernetics, which we form from the Greek kybernetes or 'steersman.'"
-John Deutch (CIA director)