If you don't know the soviets were theorizing about an infrastructure plan to build a network across the USSR to basically plan their economy for them. Ambitious as fuck, probably would have failed, and eventually got sunk by boomers anyway.
I was wondering if it would work now though. Like say after the revolution we put our best stem lords and ladies on the task of like combining all the user data Google and the NSA was collecting into useful data for addressing peoples real needs.
Some ass hole was talking about "the knowledge problem" and I was wondering if it would be technologically feasible to easily solve this precieved failure of the USSR with technology we have today. I don't know much about databases or statistics though.
Chile also tried to do this but the technology was extremely limited in the early 70s (especially for a country like Chile), and before it really got going the fascists literally smashed up the computers during the coup.
In answer to the OP, I don’t see why the hell AI and the vast computing power we have at our disposal now wouldn’t be able to massively assist in a planned economy in the 21st century. One of the biggest problems for the USSR was that they were literally using pen and paper to plan the economy for a country of a hundred million people.
They didn't have anywhere near the amount of data we have now though
That’s true. But these huge multinationals manage their supply chains somehow, surely a socialist project could apply cybernetics in a similar way with a few tweaks.