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Chile's Project Cybersyn

In Allendes Chile, a futuristic op room was to bring socialism into the computer age.

Credit: Mattias Adolfsson

In June, 1972, Ángel Parra, Chile’s leading folksinger, wrote a song titled "Litany for a Computer and a Baby About to Be Born."

From The New Yorker
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