Attaboy quoted Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. …
[..]. the centralized design of the proposed Soviet system required monitoring fifty million variables [..].
Beer was well aware of the Soviet approach to cybernetic management, and he viewed it with open contempt. He regarded the centralized approach as bureaucratic and overly complex, as well as vulnerable to manipulation.
— Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina (Page 63 - 64)