I've seen many people on this site talk about how if Andropov lived longer he could have prevented the collapse of the USSR or at least increased its odds of survival. I'm curious as to what his reforms were that people here mention.
I've seen many people on this site talk about how if Andropov lived longer he could have prevented the collapse of the USSR or at least increased its odds of survival. I'm curious as to what his reforms were that people here mention.
Kind of, but it's more about management. Cybernetics is about autonomy and reacting to things on the fly. It's about the constant flow of information and feedback. Like you set some goals to the factories you manage, they manage their thing autonomously and just send daily or weekly key numbers so that central command can see if there's a problem and help adjust goals or involve additional resources quickly.
Computers are important but for example in Chile they used cybernetic principles to manage the economy successfully and at most they had something like fax machines.