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Cybersyn And Early Uniminds
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."
How can the americans say so lightly that cia organised a coup, and in the same breath ask why people around the world dislike them?
Because, most people around the world like Americans.
The only people who don't like Americans are psudo-intelectuall trust-fund 'liberals.'* and a few nut jobs in the middle east.
* no offence ment to the true liberals who came to their ideas through thought.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Did you read the part of the article about how the Pinochet regime destroyed the system because they didn't like the principles of freedom and egalitarianism it was based on? Then proceeded on their quest to murder as much as possible of the opposition?