The Room That Was a Brain
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The plan: to connect Chile through a network. Like the internet. But in 1971.
Almost a half-century ago, Salvador Allende’s socialist government developed a technology that connected the Chilean economy in real time and distributed power among its workers. What happened with Cybersyn — that proto Latin American internet?
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