Comments on: The Cybersyn experiment, lessons from a past failure in mutual coordination economics https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-cybersyn-experiment-lessons-from-a-past-failure-in-mutual-coordination-economics/2015/05/04 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 06 May 2015 10:56:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Patrick S https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-cybersyn-experiment-lessons-from-a-past-failure-in-mutual-coordination-economics/2015/05/04/comment-page-1#comment-1168835 Wed, 06 May 2015 10:56:55 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=49971#comment-1168835 Thanks for posting – co-incidentally I was just re-reading the blog posts on the Crooked Timber website about Red Plenty last week. Shorn from a Soviet autocratic system it does seem like there is at least a fascinating potential for smartphones etc to be re-purposed as part of new economic paradigms, rather than their current niche of being heavily tied in venture-capital advertising or surveillance-oriented capitalism by private corporations – with Apple and Google as the key gatekeepers in the middle.

I saw Medina has written a full-length book about the CyberSyn project at http://www.amazon.com/Cybernetic-Revolutionaries-Technology-Politics-Allendes/dp/0262525968/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_t/178-4959292-6503933 so the Jacobin post seems like a nice summary of some of the ideas.

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