How Not to Network a Nation
Benjamin Peters' history of OGAS and Soviet attempts to build a national computer network.
Book · 2016Sources & confidence: Limited evidence
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In the essays
- Neo-Technocracy: Same Dream, Bigger Budget
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- Benjamin Peters
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Ideas
- High modernism
Subject
- Legibility
Subject
- Technocracy
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- MIT Press
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