If socialism and planned economy could ever work, massive automation, networking and computerization would be the way to do it, otherwise planning is plain impo

If socialism and planned economy could ever work, massive automation, networking and computerization would be the way to do it, otherwise planning is plain impossible, especially on humongous scales USSR has to deal with. It seems to be the case that it can't work even then, the inherent deficiencies in the system are just too fundamental for the automation to fix, but it was certainly a valiant attempt and thinking to the right direction. Just not enough, because it never could be enough. Just as if you want to go to the moon, jumping is going the right general direction, just would never be enough.