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  • dolphinhuffer [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Not so much, it wasn't concerned at all with consumer use cases, only with production and distribution. So, if it had succeeded, farms and factories would've had Cybersyn terminals to report production. This was a huge deal at the time, far more important than most people realize, and for many reasons. While one can find early Soviet theoretical writings favorably applicable to Cybersyn-related concepts post hoc, by the 1960s, the Russian bureaucracy had begun to ossify and nobody wanted to lose their jerb to a computer, so anything that might've been adjacent or complimentary to what Chile was attempting would've been banned outright. So along comes Chile, with some of the largest copper reserves in the hemisphere, copper essential to the new postwar electronic order, and says "Let's use these newfangled computers to do some really good Communisms!" and then they didn't fuck around, they started hiring some of the most prestigious theorists and engineers in the world at the time, while Allende was the first to break Cuba's political isolation by hosting Fidel Castro in Chile. Even hosting Castro alone could've gotten the country coup'd, but Nixon's administration was aware of Cybernsyn. It was not a secret project. It did, however, scare the absolute shit out of a lot of people in the U.S. So not only did Allende get coup'd, but the fledgling Cybersyn network was completely destroyed, collages ransacked for documents, and researchers jailed and tortured. All of this after several noted CIA/imperialist rags in Chile had spent months denouncing Cybersyn as some kind of sci-fi totalitarianism. Thereafter, Chile's economy under Pinochet was remade into one which was not merely Capitalist, but Neoliberal Platinum Deluxe.

    • wasbappin [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      By comparing it to Amazon I meant the tracking devices that workers in warehouses wear to monitor efficiency. I was talking out of my ass, you obviously know more about it than me. The cybersyn room does give me vibes from the original rollerball movie tho.