Chile · Allende government / 1971–1973 · experimental project
Project Cybersyn / Synco
Who gets to see the whole?
Cybersyn explored how computing and communication might support coordination in Chile’s economy between 1971 and 1973. Its interface design belongs to a wider history of information systems, not a fully realised digital utopia. The socialist question it opens remains concrete: can those who do the work participate in decisions about the whole? Neither a futuristic operations room nor a stream of data, by itself, settles who has power.
- Date
- 1971–1973 · experimental project
- Maker / designer
- Chilean and international Project Cybersyn / Synco teams
- Material
- Telex, computing, information and interface design
- Context
- An unfinished experiment in economic coordination during Chile’s democratic socialist government.
Evidence: Date established · Place established
Historical record
- Cybersyn developed in Chile between 1971 and 1973.