Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile

(MIT Press) In this book, Medina examines the history of two connecting utopian visions. She first investigates the political one, Chile’s experiment with socialist change under Salvador Allende. Then she looks at the technological one, the building of a computer system that would manage Chile’s economy. Studying these histories shows the technological ambition of a government undergoing change and the limitations of the Chilean revolution. Medina is an assistant professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University.