We investigate Chile's clandestine operation to build a nationwide network and how they monitored everything in the economy before the internet existed.

In this episode of the TTT Podcast, we uncover the true story of Project Cybersyn—a futuristic attempt in the 1970s to run an entire country using cybernetics. While it sounds like a sci-fi surveillance plot, this was a real project led by Stafford Beer and President Salvador Allende to track data in real-time.

From the Star Trek-inspired "Opsroom" to the secret telex machines used to bypass CIA-backed strikes, we explore how this technology worked and why it was decades ahead of its time. Was this the ultimate tool for economic stability, or a blueprint for modern state surveillance?

In this episode, we cover: Intro: The secret plan to monitor a nation's data What was Project Cybersyn? (The "Socialist Internet") Inside the "Opsroom": The futuristic control center How the network saved the economy during the 1972 crisis The CIA, the coup, and the destruction of the system The legacy: Big Data and government control

Key Takeaways:

The Operation: How Chile built a "proto-internet" using simple telex machines to network factories.

The Monitoring: Real-time data allowed the government to bypass the 1972 trucker strikes.

The Conflict: Why the CIA viewed this technological advantage as a major threat.

The Fall: The dramatic destruction of the Opsroom after the 1973 military coup.

Sound Bites:

"They were trying to build the internet before the internet existed."

"This room looks like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise."

"It was a tool for freedom that looked like a tool for control."

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