Project Cybersyn

In the early ’70s, the Chilean presidency under Allende commissioned a british engineer to build them something quite ambitious – a cybernetic economy. A huge telex network would feed information to and from factories through a central node.

Not the safest gamble – and, interrupted by the Pinochet coup in 1973, it was never completed. But seeing as ARK’s an ‘alternative investment company’, exploring the fringes of economics might be a useful strategy, and a self-regulating economic system certainly fits the sustainability agenda.

You can read about it here and here.