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M. Boenig-Liptsin, “Making citizens of the information age : a comparative study of the first computer literacy programs for children in the United States, France, and th,” These de doctorat, Paris 1, 2015. Accessed: May 26, 2021. Online . > Medina argues that sociotechnical projects like Project Cybersyn are key sites for understanding how revolutionary ideals are implemented in daily life. Although she is interested in how revolutions materialize into new world orders, she does not discuss the way in which the new sociotechnical order imagined and pursued by the leaders of Project Cybersyn reflected on the subjectivity of Chileans.

> Decentralized economic planning was opposed by democratic socialists to the kind of centralized economic planning characteristic of the Soviet Union. Economic decentralization in practice means that decision-making about how much to produce is given to economic agents dispersed in different parts of the economic system. Despite the term “decentralization” it is nevertheless a form of economic planning, as distinct from free market economics where, at least in theory, no planning takes place but the economy is administered through the “invisible hand” of the market. Outside of France, the use of computer systems to create a decentralized economy was the aspiration of Salvador Allende’s government in the Project Cybersyn (described by Medina 2011) and also a failed dream of the Soviets (Gerovitch 2002; also see discussion of Soviet experience in relation to the Chilean in Medina 2011, 63).

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