In the book of the outstanding Soviet academician V. M. Glushkov is determined by the place and significance of the developing field of knowledge - cybernetics . The interaction and connection of cybernetics with other sciences is revealed. Much attention is paid to the methodology and tools of scientific research that cybernetics generates. The book contains a number of fundamental results of the author on the mathematical apparatus of cybernetics, the architecture and structure of cybernetic devices, including computer systems, which largely determined the wide dissemination of ideas and results of cybernetics. Much attention is paid to the disclosure of phenomenology and the construction of models of managerial activity, social cognition and philosophical understanding of the processes of automation of various kinds of intellectual activity of people in the conditions of the scientific and technological revolution. For a wide range of readers interested in cybernetics.