Project Cybersyn - 99% Invisible

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.

99percentinvisible.org

Interesting article about Salvador Allende's attempt to create a cybernetic, non-hierarchical planned economy in Chile, which never got truly off the ground before it was destroyed by Pinochet. It's a design website, and so focuses on the design aspects of it, but provides a good overview. It was technologically basic, but perhaps there are some ideas here which we can use. Is cybernetics, and latterly AI, a technology worth considering as a solution to the problems of decision-making for a large-scale economy?