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Btw do you still have link for the one about project 'RISE' that French try to do ? It been a while and There are a guy who write quest with socialist government, so I just want to share that guy with this idea here
Here you go.
RISE: France's Ambitious Postwar Economic Network
By Kim Mun-Hee
"Popular Science," June 1925
France has been through almost half a decade of war, and they have seen it all. From coups to invasion to blockades to poison gas attacks, the French have endured the conflict and come back stronger.
Today, they are the sole-remaining power in West Africa, and the undisputed power of Western Europe and Western and Central Africa.
While they lick their wounds and begin their occupations of their neighbors, it is clear that the French are more than content with looking to the future than living in the past.
It can be seen in its rhetoric, with President Jaures giving speech after speech of a "New Era" for Western Europe as well as Western and Central Africa. It seems France seems to have learned from the Lost History and is focusing on cooperation, rather than retaliation.
It can also be seen in its actions, with how France has overthrown the various monarchies in the territories they occupied. "Relics of a past that brought us into war," is what Elysee had to say of them.
But most interestingly, it can be seen in their vision for a socialist future. Not just for France, but for all the countries it has liberated as well.
This is what the Réseau International de Simulation Économique (Internationale Economic Similation Network), otherwise known as "RISE" intends to do.
Now, it is no secret that France is an ever-socializing nation. The meme of the "French Nationalization Cycle" had gone viral in the prewar era, but it does have a basis in reality.
Many French companies had at least some tie to the OAS, even if it was simply the latter reaching out to the former.
This was more than enough pretense for the Radical-Socialist government to justify nationalizing many a company and its assets.
The OAS coup, coupled with the occupations of the Benelux, Portugal, Italy, and Germany were simply the pretense for the much-expanded nationalization across French society, as well as Western Europe as a whole.
Ironically, the war managed to speed up the nationalization process more than anything else. The French had little need for pretenses when half the remaining businesses threw in with the OAS, while the other half were deemed necessary for the war effort.
That brings us to where we are today, with the Radical-Socialist coalition in control of much of Western Europe and its machinery and openly embracing the modern computing technology that allows RISE to be more than Marx's wildest dream.
RISE is directly-inspired by the unfinished Chilean Cybersyn program developed by the Allende administration of the Lost History. Although it was never implemented, the four module system was based around a viable system model theory that utilized telex machines to send and receive data to the capital in Santiago.
RISE follows a similar design that contains four modules: a network of computers connected to a single mainframe in Paris, production analysis software, a custom-built economic simulator, and an operations room that would allow operators to analyze data and run simulations to decide on policy that would maximize efficiency and productivity.
We begin with the computer network, which is perhaps the largest divergence from Project Cybersyn. This is no surprise when Project Cybersyn was abandoned in 1973, two years before Microsoft was founded and six before Apple.
Project Cybersyn was limited by its technology, in the form of telex machines. Telex machines were an evolution of the telegraph that used the binary system to transfer messages rather than the varying voltage of the telephone and the fax machine that replaced the telex machine.
France, unlike Chile, has access to modern computing technology that allows for the near-instantaneous sharing of information by automated programs rather than relying on human input.
If the test reports are to be believed, this would allow for real-time sharing of inventories as well as performance metrics on the ground level.
The production analysis software itself will likely be largely-automated as well, though it would likely be a hybrid system in which the program compiles human-entered data regarding inventories, productivity, and the supply chain. All of this would then be transmitted to the central mainframe in Paris so that the controllers can monitor the data in real time.
The economic simulation software is expected to be a more-advanced version of that envisioned by the Allende administration that capitalizes on the more-modern computing technology available.
The software is a joint project between Nanjing and Paris to accurately model and simulate entire economies given enough input. While the two centers of power may disagree on economics, it is more a friendly rivalry than anything else, with both French and Asian academics motivated by the common goal of increased prosperity for their different peoples.
The control room is the final module, and its purpose is simple. Analysts will receive data in real time from various factories and other productive enterprises, input the data into the simulations, and then provide the results to the decision makers.
These decision makers will in turn make the most-appropriate decision based on data from the simulations.
This system, should it work, has the potential to revolutionize the revolutionary economic system that France hopes to export to its colonies and Europe as a whole.
That said, the system has its critics, both within and without. Dr. Jia Ah-Lam of the National Taiwan University has argued that RISE would require more-advanced infrastructure like fiber-optic cable to constantly-transmit so much data in real time.
"Satellite-based internet is all well and good for YouTube and Reddit," she says, "But it just isn't enough to handle the sheer amount of data Paris wants to process."
"If they really want to make this work, they need to have started laying cable five years ago."
However, there have been several criticisms from within France itself, particularly the SFIO.
"While I am all for cooperation with our friends in China," one high-ranking member said anonymously, "The fact remains that our entire socialist economy would be overly-reliant on China. This is a system that would run on Chinese computers, use Chinese software, and rely on Chinese parts to maintain and fix."
"Productivity is all well and good, but we cannot simply hand the keys of the Great Socialist Experiment to the capitalists. Even if they are our closest friends."
In response, a spokesman from Elysee has pointed out that France has already been building internet infrastructure throughout the country and has been doing so for years.
"It is a simple extension of what we have already been doing," said spokesman Jean Brodeur. "As for the reliance on the Chinese, I must point out that these computers may be bought from the Chinese, but they will be operated and maintained by patriotic Frenchmen and women who believe in the prosperity this project can bring for all our people."
Whether it is the future of the Revolution or a rushed and over-reliant technocratic system, RISE is a ray of hope for socialists and technocrats throughout the world.
As Field of Dreams once said, "If you build it, they will come."
In this case, "You" is the French government, "It" is RISE, and "they" will be the converts to socialism after they see its success.
Assuming it works, of course.
