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269. The Mythology of Cybersyn (ft. Evgeny Morozov)

This Machine Kills

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The Rise of the Technocracy in Latin America

The idea was that you need to build your own tech industry so I end they have this plan to build a semiconductor is planned for example in the north of the country and actually laid the ground for it in the early 1970s. They wanted to build their own telecommunications company to rival the local subsidiary of ITT, as well as building a national computing company some with happens even before in that there is a consensus in the country even already in the 1960s that that needs to be done.

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