Fusion and Fission, Governors and Elevators

When James Watt introduced the governor as a feedback-mechanism that would regulate and control the operation of steam-engines, he established or consolidated a paradigm or exemplar for safety-design, for the liberal idea of political checks and balances, for the epistemological notion of self-correcting methodologies, a paradigm or archetype of intelligent systems, and the patron-saint of cybernetics.