alt Hacker NewsThis idea seems to come and go all over the world.
It reminds me of the "Científicos" [1] in Mexico during the Porfirio Díaz dictatorship (early 1900s).
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c-smile • yesterday at 4:29 PM
USSR at big extent was there too.
Like OGAS[1] - a unified economic management system. The idea was simple yet technocratically rational: if the system has enough sensors and effectors on society then it can reach a maximum of satisfaction for the society as a whole (with the given set of common resources).
[1]https://museum.dataart.com/short-stories/ogas-the-red-bit-sy...
Or the "Whiz Kids" that Robert McNamara brought into the DoD in the 1960s who were supposed to win the war in Vietnam through game theory and other applications of science and technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiz_Kids_(Department_of_Defen...