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Cybersyn And Early Uniminds

Posted by Hemos on from the i-can-see-your-house-from-up-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Guardian Website is running a story on Cybersyn. An experimental computer network based on cybernetic principles that was used by Chile's revolutionary government between 1971 and 1973 to provide a real-time, decentralized form of economic analysis in the nationalized sector of the Chilean economy. The network has been described as Chile's Internet. There is a photo of the control room which looks something like the deck of the Starship Enterprise. The whole thing was the brainchild of Stafford Beer, a sort of British Buckminster Fuller. All very Orwellian and Big Brother, the whole experiment was brought to an end by the CIA sponsored coup d'etat on the September 11th, 1973."

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  1. Early post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Kissinger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    has yet to be tried as a war criminal for the atrocities in Chile (alluded to in the writeup). Shameful.

  3. Way to go, America! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Another country slaughted by your foreign politics... Great!

    Now, please, why does the world hate you? I won't dare to answer. But, heey! Sept 11th is almost there!

    Let's celebrate Chile's "independency" 30-year aniversary... thanks to CIA and Pinochet! Hoooray!

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    Oh yeah: Michael's a retard.

  5. GEORGE W. BUSH IS A FUCKING CRIMINAL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And so is his dad. Someone needs to "take care" of this situation. You can interpret that any way you want. My personal interpretation is making sure that the election system doesn't get screwed with like it was in 2000 and that we vote that asshole out of office.

    -An Evildoer