'Sibernetics' - A Brief History

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Anatoly ivanovitch, kito, initially was a young man, small builled armenian background, of white russian descent. He rose through the ranks of the red army in the second world war and emerged as a kind of prominent and rising military researcher. In 19 52 he then counters norbert weener's masterwork sibernetics in a a military library,. Then begins this like three, four year process of slowly recuperating and building the political capital to reclaim sibernetICS within popular discourse. And so here, he's not initially an economic sibernetisis thas has already beenkind of cooking in the background for four years or

Paris Marx is joined by Benjamin Peters to discuss the proposals for national computer networks in the Soviet Union, the challenges they faced in getting approval, and what lessons they hold for how we think about networks.

Benjamin Peters is the author of “How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet” and the co-editor of “Your Computer Is On Fire.” He’s also the Hazel Rogers Associate Professor at the University of Tulsa and affiliated faculty at Yale Law School. Follow Ben on Twitter as @bjpeters.

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