Introduction

On the tenth of january, 19 73, i spent all day sweltering in the operations room. The room existed, of course, it was not running the chilean economy. But it was the last of the four cyberson tools to be ready. It was a viable transducer. Only the linkages remained to be made. In the next few days, i prepared an inaugural speech for the president and also a very long explanation of the arrangement of the room and its purposes. This fact gave rise to considerable disagreement between several of us about the spanish language. Were we really talking to ministers, parliamentarians, senior officials, bureaucrats, workers, committees, or