PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES The Romans and the Knife

"Cybersyn combined ambitions for economic modeling, a national telex network and an operations room, but the complete system was never implemented."

Medina reconstructs the Chilean effort to combine communications infrastructure, decentralized economic management and computerized modeling into a single system. Her historical study establishes that these ambitions were only partially realized before the military coup ended the experiment.

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