3 ms·
Nice paper going into detail about the circumstances behind these rooms and the Soviet push for Cybernization: http://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/articles/Gerov
by hitekker 9y ago
Nice paper going into detail about the circumstances behind these rooms and the Soviet push for Cybernization:
http://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/articles/Gerovitch-InterNyet.pdf http://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/articles/Gerovitch-InterNy...
- pvg 9y agoThe pictured control rooms are mostly just control rooms of power plants, not levers for adjusting the Soviet economy. The paper is not really about these control rooms.
- dom0 9y agoMost power plants have control rooms that look pretty much like these; they fulfil the same function.
- pvg 9y agoYes the 'Soviet' bit just makes these pictures sound more exotic than they are (and it seems they originally had a couple of American ones in there by 'mistake') but the point is, none of this has anything to do with cybersyn-like networked command centers for the command economy. Which is what the linked paper is about.