“Big Data Lessons from Our Cybernetic Past“ - Eden Medina (Strata + Hadoop 2015)

We are often told that past holds lessons on how to approach the present, but we rarely look to older technologies for inspiration. Rarer still do we look at the historical experiences of less industrialized nations to teach us about the technological problems of today. In this talk, Eden Medina shares her research on Project Cybersyn, an early computer network built in Chile to further a political project for revolutionary change. She uses this history to outline important lessons for future data-driven te