a project for Allende
to put the Chilean economy under cybernetic control.

As far as I know, this is the only documented instance of someone
attempting this; deploying cybernetic controls nationwide.


*   "Brain of the Firm", Stafford Beer, 1986, ISBN 0 471 27687 1
*
*   All of this involved a massive and continuing exercise in (what I should
*   call, in the original World War II sense) operational research. That is
*   exactly what it was: research by highly qualified interdisciplinary team
s,
*   into operations, namely production companies, with the prospect of
*   discovering models and sets of measures.
*
*   We needed a group who understood the operational research techniques of
*   data capture that were needed for project Cybersyn. As a Briton I knew
*   whom I wanted --- they were a group of consultants within the London
*   branch of the international firm of Arthur Anderson and Co.
*
*   Project Cybercyn objective: To install a preliminary system of informati
on
*   and regulation for the industrial economy that will demonstrate the main
*   features of cybernetic management and begin to help in the tas

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