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In: Journal of Latin American studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, p. 571-606
ISSN: 1469-767X
This article presents a history of 'Project Cybersyn', an early computer network developed in Chile during the socialist presidency of Salvador Allende (1970–1973) to regulate the growing social property area and manage the transition of Chile's economy from capitalism to socialism. Under the guidance of British cybernetician Stafford Beer, often lauded as the 'father of management cybernetics', an interdisciplinary Chilean team designed cybernetic models of factories within the nationalised sector and created a network for the rapid transmission of economic data between the government and the factory floor. The article describes the construction of this unorthodox system, examines how its structure reflected the socialist ideology of the Allende government, and documents the contributions of this technology to the Allende administration.
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, p. 571-606
ISSN: 0022-216X
World Affairs Online
In: Inside technology
The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the global North to the global South - the view of technology as 'imported magic'. They describe not only alternate pathways for innovation, invention, and discovery but also how ideas and technologies circulate in Latin American contexts and transnationally.
In: Social text, Volume 33, Issue 1, p. 71-92
ISSN: 1527-1951