Sunday, March 30, 2008

Chile tried Software to Manage Socialist Economy in '71

When military forces loyal to Gen. Pinochet staged a coup in September 1973, they made a surprising discovery. Salvador Allende’s Socialist government had quietly embarked on a novel experiment to manage Chile’s economy using a clunky mainframe computer and a network of telex machine. The project was called 'Cybersyn'

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