Midwest Cybernetics

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Christopher Alexander, Notes on the Synthesis of Form. Design as fitting form to context, by breaking a problem into its interacting parts. Systems thinking for makers.

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[Midwest Cybernetics @EnterTheChain]

Two governments tried to run an economy over a computer network.

The Soviets drew up OGAS and never built it. Chile got Cybersyn's telex network running within a year, until the 1973 coup ended it.

Here's 20 books on management cybernetics, the science both bet on.

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Kevin Kelly, Out of Control. Hives, ecosystems and networks as models for machines and economies. Kevin Kelly's 1994 case for distributed control, still prescient.

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