There’s a really great novel called Red Plenty by Francis Spufford which is set in the USSR of the 1960s. The protagonists are mathematicians and economists who

There’s a really great novel called Red Plenty by Francis Spufford which is set in the USSR of the 1960s. The protagonists are mathematicians and economists who build a computerized planning system, not so different from SAP, to support of Kruschev’s goal of fully automating planning and manufacturing by 1980. Beautiful prose, too.