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Eden Medina: Cybernetic Revolutionaries (2014, MIT Press) 5 stars

Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. …

[..]. although the Allende government wanted to increase worker involvement in decision making, Cybersyn shows that it also continued management practices that had disempowered and dehumanized workers in the past. [..]. it would have been much harder for workers to organize against an abstract technological system, or a factory model, than to stage a protest against a visible production manager holding a stopwatch.

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