Très intéressant extrait du livre « How Not to Network a Nation : The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet », racontant les malheurs de Viktor Glushkov en essayant de convaincre le Politburo de faire de l’URSS une nation connectée.
▻https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-soviets-invented-the-internet-and-why-it-didn-t-work
There is an irony to this. The first global computer networks took root in the US thanks to well-regulated state funding and collaborative research environments, while the contemporary (and notably independent) national network efforts in the USSR floundered due to unregulated competition and institutional infighting among Soviet administrators. The first global computer network emerged thanks to capitalists behaving like cooperative socialists, not socialists behaving like competitive capitalists.
Les deux faces d’une même pièce