Word: feedbacked
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...University of Illinois last week, Dr. Grant Fairbanks was having a fine time with a fiendish apparatus specially designed to turn sane human beings into temporary gibbering idiots. It does the dirty work by the cybernetic trick of tinkering with the "feedback" system that monitors human speech...
...methods of cybernetics (the science of control mechanism) is to look for similarities between the human nervous system and the brighter man-made machines. One of these is the feedback: some means by which either the brain or a machine keeps track of what it has accomplished. Without proper feed-back apparatus a ship-steering mechanism, for instance, does not know how much it has succeeded in turning the ship. Therefore it cannot decide accurately when to stop turning. It is likely to send the ship into wild zigzags...
...example, take the expression "inverse feedback". Upon hearing this term used for the first time I could not help but conjure up the idea that it referred to a designing female who, intent upon her prey, cajoles an unsuspecting officer into accepting a home-cooked dinner date and then on the pretext of "ration coupons, you know" drags him off to the luxuriant confines of some expensive restaurant, there to prove herself to be an "inverse feedback--or feedbag"--depending upon your mood and your pronunciation...
...feedback cathode follower...
Grey-cast, billiard-bald Major Edwin Howard Armstrong, deviser of the frequency modulation system of broadcasting, has twice in his time revolutionized radio-first by the regenerative, or feedback, circuit, which outmoded crystal sets; next by his superheterodyne hookup, the basis for present-day one-dial tuning. His FM system has all the earmarks of another, and more sweeping revolution. Neither sunspots, lightning, electric razors, icebox motors, telephone dials, switches, bed warmers nor passing street cars can ruffle its calm...