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ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Informe Del Grupo de Trabajo Para la Promoción de Las Investigaciones de Los Recursos Pesqueros en Los Países en Desarrollo, Fløro, Norway, 2-8 September 1979, Rome, Italy, 8-12 September 1980
Author: Ciencia y tecnología en la cuenca del Pacífico
Author: FAO Fisheries Report
Author: Catalog of the Cuban and Caribbean Library, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Author: University of Miami. Cuban and Caribbean LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Cybernetic Revolutionaries
Author: Eden MedinaPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262525968
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
A historical study of Chile's twin experiments with cybernetics and socialism, and what they tell us about the relationship of technology and politics. In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was Chile's experiment with peaceful socialist change under Salvador Allende; the second was the simultaneous attempt to build a computer system that would manage Chile's economy. Neither vision was fully realized—Allende's government ended with a violent military coup; the system, known as Project Cybersyn, was never completely implemented—but they hold lessons for today about the relationship between technology and politics. Drawing on extensive archival material and interviews, Medina examines the cybernetic system envisioned by the Chilean government—which was to feature holistic system design, decentralized management, human-computer interaction, a national telex network, near real-time control of the growing industrial sector, and modeling the behavior of dynamic systems. She also describes, and documents with photographs, the network's Star Trek-like operations room, which featured swivel chairs with armrest control panels, a wall of screens displaying data, and flashing red lights to indicate economic emergencies. Studying project Cybersyn today helps us understand not only the technological ambitions of a government in the midst of political change but also the limitations of the Chilean revolution. This history further shows how human attempts to combine the political and the technological with the goal of creating a more just society can open new technological, intellectual, and political possibilities. Technologies, Medina writes, are historical texts; when we read them we are reading history.
Journal of Information Science
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Category : Information science
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Principles & practice.
Source Book of Alternative Technologies for Freshwater Augmentation in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Organization of American States. Unit of Sustainable Development and EnvironmentPublisher: Organization of American States
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books 1976 to 1982
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Author: