Montag, 15. August 2016

A short history of digitalization: Project Cybersyn

Wikipedia contributors, "Project Cybersyn," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Project_Cybersyn&oldid=730164863 (accessed August 15, 2016):


"Project Cybersyn was a Chilean project from 1971–1973 during the presidency of Salvador Allende aimed at constructing a distributed decision support system to aid in the management of the national economy. The project consisted of four modules: an economic simulator, custom software to check factory performance, an operations room, and a national network of telex machines that were linked to one mainframe computer."


Eden Medina, "Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende's Chile." Journal of Latin American Studies 38 (2006):571-606.

http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/edenm/EdenMedinaJLASAugust2006.pdf