Definition of "cybernate" []

• To control (an industrial process) by computer. (verb-transitive)

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• "No available models can adequately, much less precisely, predict the rate at which an industry will cybernate as a response to domestic or foreign competition or the degree to which other unanticipated changes in associated technologies and products — not to mention the interplay of economic, humanitarian, public relations, and other factors — may make cybernation more or less possible and pervasive in a given industry."
• "When Mr. Michael, in reply, says that "no available model" can predict the rate at which any industry will cybernate, this is a sorry basis for his prediction of coming cybernation."