I spent last year to develop my own form of metacybernetics. Here I want to just emphasize that metacyberetics helped me to start establishing new type of approach to engineering, engineering which utilize very strongly information process and minimize energo-material processes.
I believe that so called cybernetic engineering
- based on information and systemic approach - is the future of engineering, because there is much easier to deal with information-based processes that with energo-material processes. Metacybernetics helps analyse reality in the very effective information-systems-based-representation
. This approach gives ability to analyze seemingly different aspects of reality in the form of controlling processes, based on a concept of metacybernetic base
. Engineering projects are just special form of controlling process, which can be designed and redesigned very effectively by metacybernetics methods. Cybernetic engineering in short is just engineering
of the engineering or design
of the design. Using certain type of cybernetics one can design "engineering processes". It is the 2nd-order
engineering.
During my work in Geometrics most of the prototype building activity had information nature: supported by computer software. Only final stage -physical assembly was energo-material process. The design phase and manufacturing phase of vast number of photonic engineering processes will be gradually converting into one unified process based more and more on numerical modeling and various techniques of 3D-printing in nano, micro and macro scales. Manufacturing phase will eventually shrink to generalized 3D-printing procedure.
Fast development of 3D printing methods and advances in generating new meta-materials and meta-surfaces will change design engineering very soon. I am following very carefully advances in new meta-materials generation. Proper meta-materials can be used to obtain novel type of photonic components by 3D printing methods. For example there is publication announcing that very soon diode lasers (VCSEL) can be 3D printed! There are already meta-materials which can be used to obtain components replacing specialized sets of optical lenses and light polarizers by 3D printing methods. Meta-materials are shifting design process from designing of parts of the prototype - made with available materials - to designing functional modules of the device by designing materials, which can deliver certain function in the cybernetic representation of the prototype. So, 3D-printing technologies and meta-materials can deliver the hardware
for new type of engineering and - in my opinion - metacybernetics can deliver the cybernetic-software
to make cybernetic engineering the engineering of the future. To properly utilize the hardware
the proper understanding of information is necessary and only metacybernetics provides this in the form of so called General theory of information
in which information is precisely defined and strongly related to control processes. In metacybernetics we recognize coupling strength
between particular information and the ability of the optimization of a control process. Without metacybernetics people can not distinguish between information and statements and analyse something which is not information as information! Without metacybernetics we will be dealing with "big, bigger and even more bigger" "big data" approach, which appears because of lack of proper understanding what is information!. More and more complicated problems in technological development can only be solved by shocking
new methodology not by increase in amount of specialised (very expensive) computer software and hardware and increase of amount of people involved in a project.
I would like to use my very unique knowledge and experience (experimental and theoretical physics, design and manufacturing engineering, cybernetics, computer sciences) to offer - I believe - very effective consulting services in the development of very innovative technologies.