How do you know that you know what you know? When I think about the excitement of those early years of the cybernetic conferences, there have been several losses. One is that the explosion of devices and manufacturing and the huge economic effect of computer technology has overshadowed the epistemological curiosity on which it was built, of how we know what we know, and how that affects decision making.
Mary Catherine Bateson (https://www.edge.org/conversation/mary_catherine_bateson-how-to-be-a-systems-thinker)