Project Cybersyn
Proyecto Cybersyn
- Date
- 1971-1973 · confidence high
- Place
- Santiago, Chile
- Credited to
- Stafford Beer, Fernando Flores and the CORFO team
- People
- 👤 Fernando Flores Labra1943–👤 Stafford Beer1926–2002
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A telex network that sent daily data from state-run factories to a central computer and an operations room to manage the economy in near real time. It helped weather the truckers' strike of 1972.
Dismantled after the 1973 coup.
What it led to
- management cybernetics (the viable system model)
- a precedent for real-time management dashboards