you need to read about chile 1971

[solarbird]

If you’re into the whole old-school SF idea of planned/constructed societies and all that -and if you haven’t read much SF of the 30s though early 60s, you’ve missed out - you really need to read about Synco (a.k.a. Project Cybersyn) in Chile during the Allende administration, before the Pinochet coup d’etat. Because they tried it, for industrial

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[agrumer]

I’d heard of this before, but I’m struck by two things I hadn’t previously noticed:

• How much that ops room looks like something out of Star Trek.
• That the head interface designer was named Gui. If only he’d gone on to work at Xerox PARC…

[solarbird]

Star Trek? Other than the chairs, which totally are Star Trek? To me, it's Space: 1999.

[agrumer]

The chairs dominate that photo.

When I think of Space 1999, I think of white walls. On the other hand, those ceiling lighting panels are very Moonbase Alpha.

[wrog]

yeah, I'd have to say it's more generic Gerry Anderson.

Well okay, it's Straker's office

[solarbird]

Yeah. Yeah, I think you got it.