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Before ’73 Coup, Chile Tried to Find the Right Software for Socialism – Cybersyn

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Posted on: March 31st, 2008
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“When military forces loyal to Gen. Augusto Pinochet staged a coup here in September 1973, they made a surprising discovery. Salvador Allende’s Socialist government had quietly embarked on a novel experiment to manage ’s economy using a clunky mainframe computer and a network of telex machines

The project, called Cybersyn, was the brainchild of A. Stafford , a visionary Briton who employed his “cybernetic” concepts to help Mr. Allende find an alternative to the planned economies of and the Soviet Union. After the coup it became the subject of intense military scrutiny.

In developing Cybersyn, Mr. changed the lives of the bright young Chileans he worked with here. Some 35 years later, this little-known feature of Mr. Allende’s abortive Socialist transformation was remembered in an exhibit in a museum beneath La Moneda, the presidential palace.”*

*From: http://www.nytimes.com
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