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The world of today is very often characterized as the beginning of the era of information. The value of information has never been so high in the past as nowadays. The problem we have to solve is not to have just any information, but the problem we need to tackle is to find the correct information at the right time out of the abundance of information which overflows us every day. The information networks we operate in companies, towns, states which function via telephones, mail or satellites enable us to be informed about incidents on the other side of the planet which have only happened a few seconds ago. — Thus information ties the elements of our world very close together. This entails that reciprocal relations of the world’s elements do not only exist, but that their importance in the daily life increases heavily.
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Pape, D.F. (1989). Cybernetics Approach to Material Flow Control. In: Nof, S.Y., Moodie, C.L. (eds) Advanced Information Technologies for Industrial Material Flow Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 53. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74575-1_28
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