Su suggerimento di @voldenuit.

Su Aeon la storia del progetto che, dal 1959 al 1989, avrebbe dovuto portare alla realizzazione di una rete informatica sui territori dell’URSS e perfino ad una moneta elettronica, grazie alle ricerche di Anatoly Ivanovich Kitov e, successivamente, di Victor Glushkov, pionieri della cibernetica e dell’Information Technology sovietiche.

The forces that brought down OGAS resemble those that eventually undid the Soviet Union: the surprisingly informal forms of institutional misbehaviour. Subversive ministers, status quo-inclined bureaucrats, nervous factory managers, confused workers and even other economic reformers opposed the OGAS project because it was in their institutional self-interest to do so.

The first global computer network emerged thanks to capitalists behaving like cooperative socialists, not socialists behaving like competitive capitalists.

 

Nella foto di Viacheslav Slavinsky, un computer sovietico Electronika BK del 1984, da Wikimedia Commons