[nexa] NYer Morozov: "The Planning Machine"

Storia abbastanza nota, ma l'articolo di EM è ottimo, soprattutto se non avete tempo di leggere il libro di Medina. jc *The Planning Machine* /Project Cybersyn and the origins of the Big Data nation.// / By Evgeny Morozov In June, 1972, Ángel Parra, Chile’s leading folksinger, wrote a song titled “Litany for a Computer and a Baby About to Be Born.” Computers are like children, he sang, and Chilean bureaucrats must not abandon them. The song was prompted by a visit to Santiago from a British consultant who, with his ample beard and burly physique, reminded Parra of Santa Claus—a Santa bearing a “hidden gift, cybernetics.” […] Continua qui: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machine