This week's show is part of the harbinger media network, a group of lift wing pog casts that are made in canada. Eden medina talks to Helo about project sibersin, a technology system created by chilean government during early seventies. Project was used to help plan production of newly nationalized industries. And it also gives us a lot of things to reflect on as we consider what it would mean, or what it would look like, to build socialist technologies in the present.
Paris Marx is joined by Eden Medina to discuss Project Cybersyn, a technological system created by Chile’s socialist government in the 1970s to manage production, and what it can teach us about political technology and innovation outside the Global North.
Eden Medina is the author of “Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile.” She’s also an associate professor at MIT and the Rita E. Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Follow Eden on Twitter as @edenmedina.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
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