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.
This is definitely something that is possible. There's a reason data is worth so much. It's useful for predicting demand. The crazy thing is that meta data is actually better utilized in a broad sense, but these natsec ghouls insist on trying to reverse engineeer individual people's brains with it.
You could solve so many fucking problems by just taking all that data and using it to like find out where more hospitals are needed, determine the best place for a new train station, find out which buildings can be demolished without disrupting a community, etc. We don't though. We just use it to kill POC more efficiently.