Re:How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the So...
by bjp210 on Monday May 02, 2016 @01:55PM
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Sevensor, I'd LOVE to read more about this. Is there more in your diss?
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Re:How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the So...
by sevensor on Monday May 02, 2016 @03:00PM
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Not a whole lot. I mention it in passing. You can get the Rand corporation's 1970 Soviet Cybernetics Review here: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6200z1.html It makes for fascinating reading.
Edit: If you're interested in the late-40s zeitgeist in the US, Tjalling Koopmans' 1951 Charnes Commission report is available here: http://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/pub/mon/m13.... My apologies to Yale for hotlinking.
Edit 2: That's Cowles commission, not Charnes commission. Charnes might have been at the meeting (I forget off the top of my head) but it wasn't his commission!
Re:How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the So...
by bjp210 on Monday May 02, 2016 @03:18PM
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Excellent! I know the 1970s RAND review and am delighted to learn about the Cowles commission material here.
Re:How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the So...
by Pamar on Monday May 02, 2016 @03:21PM
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In case you don't know it already, I heartily recommend "Red Plenty" by Francis Spufford.
It has also a dedicated website (http://www.redplenty.com/Red_Plenty/Front_page.html) so you can get an idea if this may be interesting for you.