In the present paper a few aspects of the historical development 
of Cybernetics will be discussed. The aim is to show that 
by examining the epistemological problems behind these aspects 
of its development, we can acquire some useful tools for a better understanding 
of the current state of some of the theories and disciplines, 
related to information processing, which evolved out of that explosion 
of innovative ideas and which in the 1950s, 
combined and gave rise to the birth of novel and interesting paths of investigation.