StrypeyFeb 28, 2025

"There are now competing visions of what exactly cybernetic software is supposed to do. Stafford Beer thinks it's a tool for the people. Others on the team take a more limited view. Seeing it as nothing but an experimental tool for managing the economy. And a prototype really. And a technocratic one at that."

#EvgenyMorozov, 2023

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-santiago-boys/ep-6-the-geopolitics-of-S84KqFR_X6E/

#podcasts #ChoraMedia #TheSantiagoBoys #StaffordBeer #Chile #ProjectCybersyn

StrypeyJan 31, 2025

Hey @mike_hales, I didn't know you interviewed Stafford Beer during Project Cybersyn!

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-santiago-boys/ep-5-the-super-technocrat-of-P-pdmZza2UN/

#podcasts #TheSantiagoBoys #StaffordBeer #ProjectCybersyn

popcrimesSep 30, 2023

"Column: What a utopian experiment in government by computer can teach us about building a humane future"

by Brian Merchant

#ProjectCybersyn #Chile #allende

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-09-21/column-merchant-cybersyn-chile-tech-utopia-experiment

Merchant: Remembering Cybersyn, Chile's attempt at tech utopia

Fifty years ago, a violent coup cut short one of the boldest tech experiments in history: the attempt to run the entire economy of Chile from a single computer.

Los Angeles Times
Doug BelshawSep 16, 2023

I read Evgeny Morozov’s book To Save Everything, Click Here a few years ago and found it frustrating. It’s about the “folly of technological solutionism” so, while I agreed with the broad argument, I thought he presented it in an annoying way.
Here, Morozov is interviewed about his podcast The Santiago Boys, which explores into […]

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/09/16/dark-tech-and-project-cybersyn/

Dark Tech and Project Cybersyn

I read Evgeny Morozov's book To Save Everything, Click Here a few years ago and found it frustrating. It's about the "folly of technological solutionism" so, while I agreed with the broad argument, I thought he presented it in an annoying way. Here, Morozov is interviewed about his podcast The Sant

Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel
Show threadMarian DörkSep 11, 2023

The iconic ops room of #ProjectCybersyn has been reconstructed for the exhibition »Cómo diseñar una revolución: La vía chilena al diseño« (How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Way to Design) which just opened at the Centro Cultural La Moneda - a cultural center just next to the building, where Salvador Allende died 50 years ago today:
https://www.cclm.cl/exposicion/como-disenar-una-revolucion/

Some impressions from the opening:
https://www.archdaily.cl/cl/1006570/como-disenar-una-revolucion-la-via-chilena-al-diseno-se-inaugura-en-el-cclm-con-la-reconstruccion-del-proyecto-cybersyn

More background (Spanish): https://fadeu.uc.cl/noticias/7347-con-la-curadoria-de-academicos-uc-inauguran-como-disenar-una-revolucion-la-via-chilena-al-diseno

#Chile50 #DesignHistory

Show threadMarian DörkSep 8, 2023

There is also a well-produced German podcast in two parts by Jakob Schmidt and Jannis Funk:

https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/ndr-feature-box/projekt-cybersyn-chiles-kybernetischer-traum-von-gerechtigkeit-1-2/ndr/12005309/

https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/ndr-feature-box/projekt-cybersyn-chiles-kybernetischer-traum-von-gerechtigkeit-2-2/ndr/12005313/

#ProjectCybersyn #SalvadorAllende #Chile50

Projekt Cybersyn - Chiles kybernetischer Traum von Gerechtigkeit (1/2)

Feature in zwei Teilen von Jakob Schmidt und Jannis Funk. 1970 wird Salvador Allende zum Präsidenten von Chile gewählt. Er schlägt einen gewaltfreien Weg zum Sozialismus ein, verstaatlicht binnen kurzer Zeit große Teile der Wirtschaft. Doch das Management hunderter Fabriken überfordert die Verwaltung. Allende sucht fieberhaft nach neuen Ansätzen – und gibt schließlich Cybersyn in Auftrag. Vor dem Hintergrund des Scheiterns einer sozialistischen Vision erzählt „Projekt Cybersyn” von Idealisten, die ihrer Zeit auf tragische Weise voraus sind und am Ende an der Realität zerbrechen. Mit: Axel Wandtke, Lou Strenger, Jenny Schily, Marc Ben Puch, Hans Bayer, Frauke Poolman, Konstantin Lindhorst, Bernd Moss, Barnaby Metschurat und Wilfried Hochholdinger. Regie: die Autoren. Produktion: Dlf/WDR 2020. Redaktion: Joachim Dicks. Verfügbar bis 12.10.2023. https://ndr.de/radiokunst

ARD Audiothek
Marian DörkSep 8, 2023

Monday is the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état against Allende's democratically-elected government of Chile and with it the end to #ProjectCybersyn: an experimental computer network for the distributed management of the economy. Here are several well produced podcasts capturing the hopes and dreams about technology during this unique time:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/project-cybersyn/ #99percentinvisible
https://techwontsave.us/episode/61_project_cybersyn_shows_all_tech_is_political_w_eden_medina with @edenmedina
https://the-santiago-boys.com by Evgeny Morozov

#SalvadorAllende #Chile50

Project Cybersyn - 99% Invisible

On September 11, 1973, a military junta violently took control of Chile, which was led at the time by President Salvador Allende. Allende had become president in a free and democratic election. After the military coup, General Augusto Pinochet took power and ruled Chile as a dictator until 1990. The military regime dissolved the congress, took

99% Invisible
Out of Context Podcast QuotesJun 23, 2023
"A telex machine looks like a typewriter, but it's hooked up to a telephone line." - ROMAN MARS, Project Cybersyn, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #ProjectCybersyn #NationalTypewriterDay #RomanMars
Show threadjay 🌱Aug 28, 2018
@Tfox OTOH there are cyberneticists that believe we could have had this decades ago. See #TheVenusProject and #ProjectCybersyn though I do agree we're aiming for a higher degree of functionality and complexity now than before.