Inroduction to cybernetics and Stafford Beer ideas.

The unaccountability machine is a great book as an intro to Stafford Beer ideas on cybernetics and how it could be applied to organizations. Together with Brain of the Firm and The Human Use of Human Beings episodes of GIU podcast it entertained me during the fall 2025.

Peak of Stafford’s ideas is project Cybersyn. Imagine the new Chilean government building a nationwide cybernetics network for distributed descision-making in the 70th before the Internet era. It’s pure sci-fi in real life. There is also a great The Santiago Boys podcast from Evgeny Morozov.

Here is a picture of the Cybersyn operations room: