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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 (#11614413)
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!

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Re:How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the So... by bjp210 on Monday May 02, 2016 @03:18PM (#11614601)
Excellent! I know the 1970s RAND review and am delighted to learn about the Cowles commission material here.
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