The_Postmodern_Condition

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse. And it is fair to say that for the last forty years the "leading" sciences and technologies have had to do with language: phonology and theories of linguistics,4 problems of communication and cybernetics,5 modern theories of algebra and informatics,6 computers and their languages,7 problems of translation and the search for areas of compatibility among computer languages,8 problems of information storage and data banks,9 telematics and the 3 perfection of intelligent terminals,10 paradoxology. 11 The facts speak for themselves (and this list is not exhaustive). [...] These technological transformations can be expected to have a considerable impact on knowledge ... With respect to the first function, genetics provides an example that is accessible to the layman: it owes its theoretical paradigm to cybernetics. [Jean-Francois_Lyotard The_Postmodern_Condition: A Report on Knowledge 1984]