Benjamin Peters - Bryant McGill

# Benjamin Peters **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Domain:** Media Studies / Internet History **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[OGAS]], [[Viktor Glushkov]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] --- ## Definition Scholar and author of _How Not to Network a Nation_, a history of Soviet national networking projects and OGAS. ## Kybernetiks Context Peters shows that OGAS failed through institutional conflict rather than a simple absence of technical imagination. ## Backlinks [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] · [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] ## Relationships  This entry is routed through [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] and [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. Its source context is developed in [[articles/The Magic Kingdom and the Managed State|The Magic Kingdom and the Managed State]] and [[articles/The Next Interface Layer|The Next Interface Layer]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section. ### People and institutional relationships - **Benjamin Peters** authored [[wiki/How Not to Network a Nation|How Not to Network a Nation]].  ## Research Edges  #### Interface and soft-sovereignty graph patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Interface and Soft Sovereignty Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Interface and Soft Sovereignty Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] **Related source articles:** [[articles/The Next Interface Layer|The Next Interface Layer]] · [[articles/The Magic Kingdom and the Managed State|The Magic Kingdom and the Managed State]] #### Outgoing typed edges - **Edge 295 — `authored` → [[wiki/How Not to Network a Nation|How Not to Network a Nation]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `MIT_OGAS`, `MIT_OGAS_INTERVIEW`, `CORPUS_MAGIC`.