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Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:10
@@@@@ better struggle faxs now or Aslan will definitely write them as opposed to you @@@@@
Author: francois.grieu
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:10
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:10
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", Stafford Beer, 1986, ISBN 0 471 27687 1 * * Twenty-four hours a day, messages were flowing in non-stop. This instantly * posed an enormous problem in handling the inundation of information. * * Two of the senior cyberneticians organized a filtration system. The feedback was not simply machine throughput rates, but also---via the central computer---a system 'through which anyone could consult anyone else'. I used keyword monitoring to filter "information" from "noise" in Salomon's HUGE email traffic. What I did, of course, was small potatoes; what Stafford Beer did was a serious cybernetic attempt to control an entire nation's economy. In order for him to do that, he needed to set up a (cybernetic) 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
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