Project Cybersyn: Chile's Radical Experiment in Cybernetic Socialism (excerpt from Cybernetic Revolutionaries)
Eden Medina — Project Cybersyn: Chile's Radical Experiment in Cybernetic Socialism (excerpt from Cybernetic Revolutionaries) (2023)Eden Medina · 2023 · Web page · Account of the October 1972 strikeTheorySource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0169 · as of 2026-10-23 · about: Project Cybersyn (Chile) · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“The telex network built for Cybersyn was used during the October 1972 truckers' strike to coordinate fuel, supplies and road information; how much this helped the government survive is Medina's interpretation.”
Context. Beer's estimate of about 2,000 telex messages a day during the strike is his own estimate.
Evidence that supports
2The Planning Machine
Evgeny Morozov — The Planning Machine (2014)Evgeny Morozov · 2014 · Article · Account of Flores's idea of using the telex machines against the strikeEvidence that contradicts
0No counter-evidence recorded.
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