“Because the Systems Age is teleologically oriented, it is preoccupied with systems that are goal-seeking or purposeful, that is, systems that can display choice of either means or ends, or both. It is interested in purely mechanical systems only.”

—  Russell L. Ackoff

Source: 1970s, Redesigning the future, 1974, p. 18.

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