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Amazon is solving a teeny, tiny sliver of the total problem. The total structure of production is incalculably vaster than the consumer end market. Summarising
by jacques_chester 7y ago
Amazon is solving a teeny, tiny sliver of the total problem. The total structure of production is incalculably vaster than the consumer end market.
Summarising a complex history, the USSR did have folks who argued for a cybernetic approach to production planning, but it was never tried. An entertaining semi-fictionalised account is Red Plenty. A drastically less entertaining but more scholarly read is Newspeak to Cyberspeak.
- thewarrior 7y agoYeah but the didnt have the tech of today right ?
- cr0sh 7y ago> Summarising a complex history, the USSR did have folks who argued for a cybernetic approach to production planning, but it was never tried. Not in the USSR - but there was an attempt elsewhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
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