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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.
*   
*       Cyberstride, the suite of computer programs needed to provide
*       statistical filtration for all homeostatic loops at all levels
*       of recursion, and provide alerts via an 'arousal filter'.
*   
*       Checo, the model of the Chilean economy, with simulation capacity.
*   
*       Opsroom, a new environment for decision, and dependent for its
*       existence on the existence of the other three.
*   
*   Cybernet was a system whereby every single factory in the country,
*   contained within the nationalized social economy, could be in
*   communication with a computer.
*   
*   The intention of Cybernet was to make computer power available to the
*   workers' committees in every factory.
*   
*   How could this be done?
*   
*   The basic idea was that crucial indices of performance in every plant
*   should be transmitted daily to the computers, where they would be
*   processed and examined for any kind of important signal that they
*   contained. If there was any sort of warning implied by these data,
*   then an alerting signal would be sent back to the managers of the
*   plant concerned.

What are 'arousal filt