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monitoring infrastructure.
The nation's banks, factories and industrial companies. It would have given Allende maximum control over the nations industrial infrastructure, real-time monitoring of everything. Everything had a computer monitoring it. * "The Future of War - Power, Technology, and American World Dominance in * the 21st Century", by George & Meredith Friedman, 1996, ISBN 0-517-70403-X * * McNamara's revolution built on an idea that was central to operations * research and propounded by many nuclear strategists, that war was not * methodologically distinguishable from economics. The process whereby you * analyzed, managed, and controlled an economy was not essentially different * from the way you managed a war, except that one was an economy of produc- * tion and the other was an economy of force. The principal underlying both * was the doctrine of efficiency: maximizing the benefits received from the * efforts and expenditures---a cost benefit analysis. Cyberneticians hope to use their capabilities for the betterment of the human race, of which they are a part. They are not naive when it comes to the government and politics, either. * "The Rise of the Computer State", David Burnham, 1984 * * Norbert Wiener, the MIT professor who is generally credited with being * one of the principal minds behind the development of the computer, * refused to take research money f |
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