Project Cybersyn
Somebody already tried running an economy as a real-time control loop.
Eden Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
MIT Press, 2011
Between 1971 and 1973 Stafford Beer built a cybernetic management system for the Chilean economy: telex links from factories, a statistical modeling suite, and an operations room with seven chairs. It ended with the coup of September 1973.
Included because ambitions currently described as unprecedented were specified in detail fifty years ago, along with their governance problems. A useful corrective to the idea that real-time organizational control is new.
What synchronizes the work when there is no room and half the team is not a person?
What would you show an auditor, and can the system produce it without being asked?