[spectre] Soviet or Internet - Cyberneticists in Hell

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Baruch Gottlieb reviews Benjamin Peters' How Not to Network a Nation: The
Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet, The MITPress, 2016 -
http://bit.ly/2dqngBU

In Benjamin Peters’ “How not to Network a Nation” we learn that the USSR
had the engineers with the technical knowhow and capacity to construct
national computer networks of scale. Indeed, the Soviet military had such a
network already in the 60s, but the question Peters wants to ask is why the
USSR did not develop a ‘civilian’ computer network akin to the Internet we
know and love today.
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