Project Cybersyn

# Summary Project Cybersyn was an early 1970s attempt by Chile's Allende government, with British cyberneticist Stafford Beer, to use networked computers for centralized economic management of the nationalized sector. The system had four components: a telex network linking factories to a mainframe computer, an anomaly-detection program called Cyberstride, a macroeconomic simulation model (CHECO), and a futuristic control room for decision-makers. Only the telex network achieved practical utility before the project was interrupted by Allende's fall.