Pax Technologica: Computers, Int'l Affairs, and Human Reason in the Cold War by Joy Rohdes (2017)

Abstract: "From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, a team of U.S. political scientists and computer specialists designed an automated, computerized information system that could ostensibly forecast conflict earlier and more accurately than human analysts. Named the Crisis Early Warning and Monitoring System (EWAMS), it sought to bring international relations scholarship and U.S. national security policy—traditionally qualitative and interpretive domains—under the jurisdiction of a man–machine system...."

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/695679

Paywall: https://libgen.rs/scimag/10.1086%2F695679

Via Darts & Letters: https://dartsandletters.ca/

And the New Books Network:

Technocracy Now Part 1: https://newbooksnetwork.com/technocracy-now-part-1

Technocracy Now Part 2: https://newbooksnetwork.com/technocracy-now-part-2-exploring-technocracy-through-cybernetics (submitted article is basis for this episode)

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