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The answer, of course, is to have a society based on human values other than buying or selling. To arrive at this society, we need a good deal of planning and a good deal of struggle, which, if the best comes to the best, may be on the plane of ideas, and otherwise who knows? –Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, 1948
These profoundly radical words from Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) echo Malcolm X’s call to address structural racism in society “by any means necessary”. Yet Wiener is hardly known as a revolutionary. In fact, by the beginning of the 21st century his name was hardly known at all. Given that he is arguably the foremost 20th century thinker and commentator on the relationship between technology and society, this is unfortunate. ....
Best Readings in Communications in Wireless Networked Control Wireless networked control has attracted a lot of attention from both academia and industry in the past two decades, and has become a hot topic in recent years, mainly driven by mission-critical Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications requiring closed-loop control, such as intelligent transportation, Tele-surgery, industry automation, power systems automation, and power electronics control. Specifically, a wireless networked control system (WNCS) is a spatially distributed control system consisting of networked sensors, actuators and a controller. The wireless sensors measure and report the physical process states of interest, the remote controller collects the sensors’ measurements and generates control signals, and the wireless actuators receive the control signals and control the processes. Due to its spatially distributed nature, reliable, dynamic and secure wireless communications among sensor, ....