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the uneasy history of the Soviet internet

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An edition of How not to network a nation (2016)

How not to network a nation

the uneasy history of the Soviet internet

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"After examining the midcentury rise of cybernetics, the science of self-governing systems, and the emergence in the Soviet Union of economic cybernetics, Peters complicates this uneasy role reversal while chronicling the various Soviet attempts to build a 'unified information network.' Drawing on previously unknown archival and historical materials, he focuses on the final, and most ambitious of these projects, the All-State Automated System of Management (OGAS), and its principal promoter, Viktor M. Glushkov. Peters describes the rise and fall of OGAS -- its theoretical and practical reach, its vision of a national economy managed by network, the bureaucratic obstacles it encountered, and the institutional stalemate that killed it. Finally, he considers the implications of the Soviet experience for today's networked world."--Publisher description.

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MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
298

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Subjects
Computer networks, History, Internetworking (Telecommunication), Research, Telecommunication, Technological innovations, soviet union
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Soviet Union

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Table of Contents

A global history of cybernetics
Economic cybernetics and its limits
From network to patchwork : three pioneering network projects that didn't, 1959 to 1962
Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969
The undoing of the OGAS, 1970 to 1989
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix A. Basic structure of the Soviet government
Appendix B. Annotated list of Slavic names
Appendix C. Network and other project acronyms.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Information policy, Information policy series
Copyright Date
2016

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
384.30947/09045
Library of Congress
TK5102.3.S68 P48 2016, TK5102.3.S68 P48 2015, TK5102.3.S68P48 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 298 pages
Number of pages
298

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OL26959939M
Internet Archive
hownottonetworkn0000pete
ISBN 10
0262034182
ISBN 13
9780262034180
LCCN
2015038371
OCLC/WorldCat
927438758

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