The library – as an idea, a place, and a cybernetic system – has always been an investment in, and a vision about, the future. Recently the National Library of Australia and the ANU School of Cybernetics conducted a thought experiment: If library indexing has informed the structure of search on the internet, how might the library inform new ways of connecting these large caches of information to generate meaning?

The Algorithmic Futures podcast series explores the work needed to successfully design technology and policy for an uncertain future. Each episode contains interviews with technology creators, regulators and dreamers to learn how complex technological capabilities imagined now might shape (and be shaped by) our environment and societies in the years to come.

The ATSE brings together Australia’s leading experts in applied science, technology and engineering to provide impartial, practical and evidence-based advice on how to achieve sustainable solutions and advance prosperity.

The Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) conducts globally competitive research and development in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, computer vision and deep learning.

The research of the cybernetics group is highly multidisciplinary and involves working with experts in domains from entomology and neuroscience to mining and agriculture. It aims to create real-time situational awareness in complex environments, particularly of biological agents such as human brain state or animal behaviour.

The American Society for Cybernetics was founded in 1964 in Washington, DC to encourage new developments in cybernetics as an inter-/trans-/meta-disciplinary field.

Founded in the UK in 1968, the Cybernetics Society aims to promote the understanding and use of Cybernetics.

The IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society aims to promote “the theory, practice, and interdisciplinary aspects of systems science and engineering, human-machine systems, and cybernetics.”

WOSC was was founded in 1969, with the aim of supporting the communication of individuals and organisations related to systems thinking and cybernetics worldwide.