Eden Medina is Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her award-winning book Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile (2011) tells the history of the Chilean Cybersyn Project and explores the relationship of technology and politics in the Chilean road to socialism. More of her writings are available here.
Eden Medina
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Writing on Public Books
The Politics of Networking a Nation
In 1981, one year before his death, the Soviet cybernetician and computer pioneer Victor Glushkov published the book What Is the OGAS? OGAS was the Russian acronym for All-State Automated System for Gathering and Processing of Information for the Accounting, Planning, and Governance of the National Economy, USSR—a good illustration of the Soviet tendency toward […]
