The Santiago Boys Trailer | a podcast of how in 1973, project Cybersyn took on the CIA & Corporat...

https://the-santiago-boys.com/ A nine-part exploration of the unlikely effort of Salvador Allende’s youthful technocrats and engineers (the Santiago Boys) to build their own socialist Internet. They do so by recruiting a prominent British tech guru, Stafford Beer, to help them. Beer proves a most unlikely candidate for that mission. A former British intelligence officer, a chum of Robert Maxwell, and a senior executive in IPC, then the largest publishing company in the world, Beer is anything but socialist. In fact, this cigar-smoking owner of a fancy mansion in the Stockbroker Belt, drives a Rolls-Royce, has a fancy pool, and enjoys his membership in the prestigious Atheneum Club. But then, one day in the summer of 1971, Beer gets a letter from Chile – a letter that eventually transforms him from a respected man of business into a socialist hippie. All of a sudden, he is building a fancy tech project for Allende, as the latter tries to survive the onslaught of the CIA, ITT, local r