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Cybersyn and automation of the government

Project Cybersyn was a Chilean project from 1971–1973 during the presidency of Salvador Allende aimed at constructing a distributed decision support system to aid in the management of the national economy. The project consisted of four modules: an economic simulator, custom software to check factory performance, an operations room, and a national network of telex machines that were linked to one mainframe computer.

Cybersyn control room. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12937653

Cybersyn control room. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12937653

Two clippings from Automated government, an article by John W. Macy in The New Computer Age, 1966:

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http://simson.net/ref/1966/SR_AutomatedGovernment.pdf

tags: robotics, politics, automation, government
categories: reference
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