«In June, 1972, Ángel Parra, Chile’s leading folksinger, wrote a song titled “Litany for a Computer and a Baby About to Be Born.” Computers are like children, he sang, and Chilean bureaucrats must not abandon them. The song was prompted by a visit to Santiago from a British consultant who, with his ample beard and burly physique, reminded Parra of Santa Claus—a Santa bearing a “hidden gift, cybernetics.” In Allende’s Chile, a futuristic op room was to bring socialism into the computer age.»
Evgeny Morozov, «The Planning Machine. Project Cybersyn and the origins of the Big Data nation», The New Yorker, 2014