When discussing questions of the interrelation of nature and men, often the idea emerges that humans are interrupting an otherwise stable system, in which animal and plant populations would live in an eternal equilibrium. This thesis was extremely popular and actually inspired by the science of cybernetics and the Macy Conferences in the 1950s. The involved scientists, such as Oswald Wiener claimed that machines should be inspired by complex systems in nature in order to create models to control the ever-increasing problems of mass civilization.

In recent times these notions have been shifted towards projections on what technology, especially Artificial Intelligence, will provide in terms of stabilising a self-destructive, all-consuming system of the global market economy. I will look at the intertwined nature of how this technology is slowly connecting to all aspects of social and economic life and thereby creating new perspectives towards the future of architecture.