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Cybernetic Revolutionaries

Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile

Cybernetic Revolutionaries( )
Author: Medina, Eden
ISBN:978-0-262-01649-0
Publication Date:Oct 2011
Publisher:MIT Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $89.00
Book Description:

In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was Chile's experiment with peaceful socialist change under Salvador Allende; the second was the simultaneous attempt to build a computer system that would manage Chile's economy. Neither vision was fully realized -- Allende's government ended with a violent military coup; the system, known as Project Cybersyn, was never completely...
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Book Details
Pages:312
Detailed Subjects: Business & Economics / Government & Business
Computers / Cybernetics
Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American
Business & Economics / Economic Conditions
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):18.5 x 23.4 x 2.175 cm
Book Weight:0.786 Kilograms



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