How an eccentric English tech guru helped guide Allende’s socialist Chile
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/22/stafford-beer-chile-allende-technology-cybernetics
In the autumn of 1971, an ambitious young engineer from Talca, central Chile, strode into the lobby of the exclusive Athenaeum Club on London’s Pall Mall to meet #Stafford_Beer, an eccentric Surrey insider he had long admired.
Fernando Flores had been appointed head of Chile’s Production and Development Corporation (Corfo) by the socialist president Salvador Allende at just 26 years of age, and amid a rush of excitement for Allende’s plans, hoped to present Beer with his vision for a technology-driven, state-led economic model.