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<div class="title">The Fabulous Loop de Loop</div> | |||
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<div class="subtitle"><em>A cybernetic discourse as read through seven feedback machines</em></div> | |||
<div class="byline">A project in progress by Steve Rushton</div> | |||
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Latest revision as of 10:49, 31 January 2024
M. SPECULARIX
(The Cybernetic Tortoise)
The late 1940s–The Cybernetic Tortoise moves about, responding to light and touch. Does its movement demonstrate behaviour? Does its behaviour demonstrate thought?
![](/rushtonhosts/fabulousloopdeloop/images/thumb/6/62/CT_silhouette.png/150px-CT_silhouette.png)
THE PORTAPAK:
SONY VIDEOROVER DV-2400 (1967)
The late 1960s-early 1970s–The Sony Portapak was a video system used to develop community media. Does the interaction between humans and machines represent an ecology?
![](/rushtonhosts/fabulousloopdeloop/images/thumb/f/fe/PP_silhouette.png/250px-PP_silhouette.png)
SEER
(SEquence Extrapolating Robot)
The early 1950s–The SEER (SEquence Extrapolating Robot) plays a simple guessing game with humans. Is SEER one of the first “thinking machines”?
![](/rushtonhosts/fabulousloopdeloop/images/thumb/f/f5/Mind-reading_machine_silhouette.png/150px-Mind-reading_machine_silhouette.png)
THE ELECTROPSYCOMETER
(The E-Meter)
The early 1950s–The E-Meter (Electropsycometer) is used in Scientology auditing sessions. The E-Meter uses feedback to regulate and monitor the actions and re-actions of the user.
![](/rushtonhosts/fabulousloopdeloop/images/thumb/4/4b/EM_silhouette.png/200px-EM_silhouette.png)
THE STRUCTURAL DIFFERENTIAL
(The Anthropometre)
1924–The Structural Differential is a “plastic diagram” that helps users understand the difference between an object and the word representing that object.
![](/rushtonhosts/fabulousloopdeloop/images/thumb/4/4d/SD_silhouette.png/100px-SD_silhouette.png)