I feel like people dunk on the "you're criticizing capitalism from your iphone" callout without acknowledging its fundamental correctness. Innovation and the production of consumer goods are two things that capitalism really is better at, whatever your political stancehttps://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1255758942833172490 …
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It would be interesting to compare this to China’s efforts/performance in this space.
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@MazzucatoM has a lot to say on your original post (she says, tapping on her very old MacBook)https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/12/phone-state-private-sector-products-investment-innovation … -
All modern microelectronics exists because the US Government wants to kill Communists. The Soviet military industrial complex excelled in other areas.
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I believe Francis Spufford's _Red Plenty_ talks about it, among other things.
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Great book.
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Russia went from a feudalist backwater no-man's-land to launching a satellite into orbit and being one of the two world's superpowers in **40** years! FORTY! Why are you making me defend the USSR?! GAH! Lean very hard into that last emotion, it is a good one.
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There’s a comprehensively footnoted fictionalised account of the USSR’s 1960s attempt to adopt computers and linear programming into its central plans, and its sabotage by existing stakeholders: “Red Plenty”, by Francis Spufford.
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The book 'Red Plenty' by Francis Spufford is a historical fiction about the initial cybernetization of the Soviet 60s, and it's decay. The author wanted it to be 'historically adjacent' so it has copious notes in the back about what events/people are real and what he fabricated.
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No computers and no TCP/IP: DARPA (via RAND etc) knew that packet networking required relinquishing centralized control and so was an advance that the USSR was systematically unable to adopt, and so lavishly funded it.
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They had no way to make microchips. The TCP/IP thing is kind of moot if you can't make those
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