Reading about Cybernetics in the Eastern Bloc is a trip Victor Glushkov >national computer network with distributed storage, packet switching, resource sharing for gathering national economic statistics and automating data input>electronic system of money>spoke about ordering goods over computers like train, airplane tickets >pioneer of automation, headed development of Dnepr computers, used at Dneprovsky Metallurgical PlantEarly computer science development was filled with real geniuses and visionaries. It's a damn shame he's not more studied in the west
>>18123617https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWcdM4YY3Y0Here he is in the GDR talking about AI, machine learning, and robots