As stated on the coverpage, cybernetics is defined, in Webster's Dictionary, as the study of the mechanical brain. A goal since Ancient Greece, from which the word come, philosophers have been theorizing about creating a mechanical brain. Further, was the inqusition into the mechanical human. The improbability of cybernetics made it the realm of the mad scientist like Dr. Frankenstien! However, it's possiblities (theoretics) were maintaned by the same people who envisioned the space age - the science fiction writers.

It was in the pages of popular science fiction that the concepts of space travel, and the cybernetics beings that would operate these vehicles, was developed. However, no self-respecting scientist would dare (or at least - admittedly) venture into the possiblities of this area. However, mavericks like the rocketeers Goddard, and Warner Van Braun, ignored convention. First, Goddard is credited for doing much of the founding work for rocketry, was completed by Warner Van Braun and Segi Korolov (Van Braun's Soviet counter-part) in the space race of the 1960's and 1970's. However, it was Van Braun's Saturn V, that landed on the moon - and set the stage for the space age.

In, what became to be known as the space race (which actually began with Goddard), the invention of the computer came into existence just as Van Braun's V2's were launched. ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) came into existence between 1943 and 1946, evolving in UNIVAC in 1950. Prior to this, computers were people who calculated (computed) large equations and mathematics. In the space race, the human computer was replaced by the digital (electronic) computer. Then in the 1970's and 1980's, computers moved from the confines of the academic research lab, and corporations, in the basement/garage labs of mavericks like Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne of Apple Computer. The work by Steve Jobs would place the computer on the desk of the average individual, 15 years later (in 1995), with the introduction of Microsoft's Window's 95 and access to the new internet. A research environment that was now on the desktop of the average student.

Once again, the academic computer scientists, was changed by the work done by the fringe element in their basements and garages (the new castles for the modern day Dr. Frankenstien). Since then, these scientists have been theorizing about artificial intelligence; how to create, or replicate, human intelligence. The primary problem that was encountered, was that there is no satisfactory definition of what intelligence is (was and is because this question of intelligence still has no real answer). As such, most philosophies fail in the computer, leading some in the field to try to model behavior (instead of intelligence), which has lead others to modeling simple forms of life; A.L. (Artifiical Life concept developed around 1990). The behavior (A.L.) models have had some success, but are still a long way from developing a true cybernetic organism - let alone a cybernetics entity. Whole new aspects of emirgent behavior became a reality with the explosive growth of the internet in 1995. The field of cybernetics was slowly developing, not as a single field of science, but one of multiple disciples (multiple areas of science). As such, it became apparent, that the fields A.I. & A.L. are interconnected and encompass the sciences of psychology, sociology, behavior science, biology, zoology, and medical science.

The Cybernetics Institute, in 1989/1990, was one of the first multidisciplinary approaches, which itself is an aspect of the objective philosophy (and scientific theory) that is Delta R&D, Inc. . The complexity of the theory makes it impossible to describe here (see http://deltard.org). It was found that, cybernetics, which involves robotics and the artificial human - the ultimate cybernetic organism - is the evolution of A.I. (the model of behavior) and A.L. (the model of biology) . Then a model of medical science needs to be researched to provide the required knowledge to develop the model of the human being. Conversely, researching these different fields (from the prospective of cybernetics), could yield new benefits to each of the other related fields, by finding solutions to problems in one field, in the other field. The progress of the research can be seen in the links to the left.