Storia abbastanza nota, ma l'articolo di EM è ottimo,
soprattutto se non avete tempo di leggere il libro di Medina.

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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.”

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Continua qui: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machine