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* "Brain of the Firm", Stafford Beer, 1986, ISBN 0 471 27687 1
*
* All of this involved a massive and continuing exercise in (what I should
* call, in the original World War II sense) operational research. That is
* exactly what it was: research by highly qualified interdisciplinary teams,
* into operations, namely production companies, with the prospect of
* discovering models and sets of measures.
*
* We needed a group who understood the operational research techniques of
* data capture that were needed for project Cybersyn. As a Briton I knew
* whom I wanted --- they were a group of consultants within the London
* branch of the international firm of Arthur Anderson and Co.
*
* Project Cybercyn objective: To install a preliminary system of information
* and regulation for the industrial economy that will demonstrate the main
* features of cybernetic management and begin to help in the task of actual
* decision-making by March 1st 1972.
Under the circumstances of a nationalized economy, it was a positive thing.
It was a massive application of cybernetic feedback to help each industry
and each factory keep track of itself through a central location. All
communications flowed through the central location.
This is what Stafford Beer refers to as 'Brain of the Firm'. It was located
in Santiago, Chile.
For NSA, it is Fort Meade in Maryland, USA.
* "Brain of the Firm", Stafford Beer, 1986, ISBN 0 471 27687 1
*
* Project Cybercyn consisted of four major tools:
*
* Cybernet, a national network of industrial communications to a centre
* in Santiago, through which anyone could consult anyone else.
*
* Cyber
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