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>dubiously useful The US made sure that doubt was never cleared. Shame, it looked decades ahead of its time, essentially internet + machine learning to dynamic
by andrepd 6y ago
>dubiously useful
The US made sure that doubt was never cleared. Shame, it looked decades ahead of its time, essentially internet + machine learning to dynamically allocate resources and diagnose problems. Essentially what amazon and other big enterprises do today, so... Plus it had a socialist bent, aiming to include workers in that real time decision making process.
- kingkawn 6y agoWhich at the time was condemned as signs of a command economy, but now is practiced en masse but all major corporations and governments
- iguy 6y agoThe problem Amazon is solving also involves a lot of data, that is true. But it has lots and lots of price information to go on, both prices people are willing to pay for various goods at various times & places, and prices at which suppliers stop selling. That's what command economies didn't have, and it's why they didn't work. That was the criticism.
- kingkawn 6y agoThat was the literal purpose of this control room