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Cybernetic Revolutionaries (2014, MIT Press) 5 stars

Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. …

[..]. the centralized design of the proposed Soviet system required monitoring fifty million variables [..].

Beer was well aware of the Soviet approach to cybernetic management, and he viewed it with open contempt. He regarded the centralized approach as bureaucratic and overly complex, as well as vulnerable to manipulation.

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Later in the book, they programmed an initial version of the economic simulator, with: "dynamic understanding of systems with 10-100 variables, as compared with 5-10 variables which is the limit for the unaided brain."