Why the Soviet Union Didn’t Build the Internet w/ Benjamin Peters
Tech Won't Save Us
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Glushkov's Plan for the Ogos
In 19 70, the soviets came to funding a national computer network. The minister of finance did not want an optimized, decentralized computer network governing or informing the state economy. Instead he called for simple computers that would simply like flash lights or play music in hen houses and thus speed up egg production. It's with that kind of, centralized, how do we make this technocratically sustainable go that i think the orgos project runs into its greatest barriers.
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