Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Big brother is watching you
Connect Chilean politician and British computer scientist to weird room:
Cracked by: Bharath, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Shyam, Don42, Bipin Banavalikar, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, rickde, Supritha Maiya, Dibyo, Ananth, raklodramA, mankuTimma and rohanquizzer
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Salvador Allende(1) and Stafford Beer (2) built this computerized governance mechanism called Cybersyn (3) to “run” all of Chile. The whole thing eventually fell apart, but nevertheless one of the more quirky and interesting overlaps between computing and politics.
            

