13-06-2009, 06:52 PM
Project Cybersyn was a Chilean attempt at real-time computer-controlled planned economy in the years 1970€1973 (during the government of president Salvador Allende). It was essentially a network of telex machines that linked factories with a single computer center in Santiago, which controlled them using principles of cybernetics. The principal architect of the system was British operations research scientist Stafford Beer.