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[[File:Cybersyn.swag.png|thumb|Contemporary rendering of the imagined Cybersyn control center ]]

This was Allendes short lived attempt to harness cybernetics and internet technology ([[ARPANET]] completed two years earlier in 1969) for the purposes of managing a nationalized economy under siege. In July of 1971 Fernando Flores of the Chilean Production Development Corporation (CORFO) brought in Manchester cybernetician Stafford Beer. Around 500 telex machines were placed in factories across the country, where they would relate basic data (raw material input, production output, number of absentees, etc.) to a central computer which would make short term predictions and necessary adjustments. It was utilized effectively during the October 1972 CIA/AFL-CIO instigated trucker strike.