all the filters, a human then
reviews the results to see if it calls for action. "arousal filter"
Mr. Beer was trying to help the economy by massive real-time monitoring
of factories and companies and banks, and thus help the people of Chile.
* "Brain of the Firm", Stafford Beer, 1986, ISBN 0 471 27687 1
*
* Twenty-four hours a day, messages were flowing in non-stop. This
instantly
* posed an enormous problem in handling the inundation of information.
*
* Two of the senior cyberneticians organized a filtration system.
The feedback was not simply machine throughput rates, but also---via
the central computer---a system 'through which anyone could consult
anyone else'.
I used keyword monitoring to filter "information" from "noise" in
Salomon's HUGE email traffic. What I did, of course, was small potatoes;
what Stafford Beer did was a serious cybernetic attempt to control an
entire nation's economy.
In order for him to do that, he needed to set
up a (cybernetic) monitoring infrastructure.
The nation's banks, factories and industrial companies.
It would have given Allende maximum control over the nations
industrial infrastructure, real-time monitoring of everything.
Everything had a computer monitoring it.
* "The Future of War - Power, Technology, and American World Dominance
in
* the 21st Century", by George & Meredith Friedman, 1996, ISBN
0-517-70403-X
*
* McNamara's revolution built on an idea that was central to operations
* research and propounded by many nuclear strategists, that war was not
* methodologically distinguishable from economics. The process whereby
you
* analyzed, managed, and controlled an economy was not essentially
different
* from the way you ma
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