kubernetes

In this form, it is a cybernetic device: cybernetic in the precise sense that this word implies guidance, steerage (Greek: kubernetes, governor, helmsman).

'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth 2001

Phael-Asser, Nabon-Asser, he, I say, formed a conjecture equally absurd; for as we usually say ek to biblion kubernetes, which implies that books will never teach the world; so he attempted to investigate -- But, Sir, I ask pardon, I am straying from the question. '

The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith 1752

Phael – Asser, Nabon – Asser, he, I say, formed a conjecture equally absurd; for as we usually say ek to biblion kubernetes, which implies that books will never teach the world; so he attempted to investigate — But, Sir, I ask pardon, I am straying from the question.’ —

The Vicar of Wakefield 2004