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'arousal filter' Stafford Beer and his cyberneticians
set up was effectively keyword monitoring of traffic.

When you use keywords to either select or exclude traffic, each step
is a 'filter' step. If you make it past all the filters, a human then
reviews the results to see if it calls for action. "arousal filter"

Mr. Beer was trying to help the economy by massive real-time monitoring
of factories and companies and banks, and thus help the people of Chile.

* "Brain of the Firm", Stafford Beer, 1986, ISBN 0 471 27687 1
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* Twenty-four hours a day, messages were flowing in non-stop. This instantly
* posed an enormous problem in handling the inundation of information.
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* Two of the senior cyberneticians organized a filtration system.

The feedback was not simply machine throughput rates, but also---via
the central computer---a system 'through which anyone could consult
anyone else'.

I used keyword monitoring to filter "information" from "noise" in
Salomon's HUGE email traffic. What I did, of course, was small potatoes;
what Stafford Beer did was a serious cybernetic attempt to control an
entire nation's economy.

In order for him to do that, he needed to set
up a (cybernetic) monitoring infrastructure.

The nation's banks, factories and industrial companies.

It would have given Allende maximum control over the nations
industrial infrastructure, real-time monitoring of everything.

Everything h


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