Results for cybernetics • Damn Interesting https://www.damninteresting.com/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Tue, 07 Nov 2023 23:34:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 How an eccentric English tech guru helped guide Allende’s socialist Chile https://www.damninteresting.com/shared/how-an-eccentric-english-tech-guru-helped-guide-allendes-socialist-chile/ Sun, 23 Jul 2023 22:30:21 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?post_type=shared&p=85128 How an eccentric English tech guru helped guide Allende’s socialist Chile:

]]> Nineteen Seventy Three https://www.damninteresting.com/nineteen-seventy-three/ https://www.damninteresting.com/nineteen-seventy-three/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:34:00 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=4942 Nineteen Seventy Three:

On 12 November 1971, in the presidential palace in the Republic of Chile, President Salvador Allende and a British theorist named Stafford Beer engaged in a highly improbable conversation. Beer was a world-renowned cybernetician and Allende was the newly elected leader of the impoverished republic. Beer–a towering middle-aged man with a long, dark beard–sat face […]

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