After Scarcity

After Scarcity is a scifiessay film that tracks Soviet cyberneticians 1950s1980s in their attempt to build a fullyautomated planned economy an attempt that finds traction today as a way of defying financialization If the problem of socialism was time losstoo much bureaucracy too much conversation too many meetingsa socialismonspeed counting electricity plus statistics could move past this limit The film recounts the history of a moment in time when against all odds it seemed feasible to plan for the whole system at oncecollective ownership of global resources with the programmed and networked efficiency of WalMart