How Not to Network a Nation

# How Not to Network a Nation **Entity class:** Technology, method, or technical system **Domain:** Internet History / Soviet Computing **Doc Type:** Work Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Benjamin Peters]], [[OGAS]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] --- ## Definition Benjamin Peters’s history of Soviet efforts to build a nationwide computer network. ## Kybernetiks Context The book centers OGAS and shows how institutional incentives can defeat technically coherent network plans. ## 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/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]], 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 - [[wiki/Benjamin Peters|Benjamin Peters]] authored **How Not to Network a Nation**. ### Publications and research lineage - **How Not to Network a Nation** was published by [[wiki/MIT Press|MIT Press]]. ### Key Relationships - **How Not to Network a Nation** is associated with [[wiki/OGAS|OGAS]].  ## 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 296 — `published_by` → [[wiki/MIT Press|MIT Press]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `MIT_OGAS`, `MIT_OGAS_INTERVIEW`, `CORPUS_MAGIC`. - **Edge 297 — `analyzes` → [[wiki/OGAS|OGAS]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `MIT_OGAS`, `MIT_OGAS_INTERVIEW`, `CORPUS_MAGIC`. #### Incoming typed edges - **Edge 295 — [[wiki/Benjamin Peters|Benjamin Peters]] `authored` → this entry** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `MIT_OGAS`, `MIT_OGAS_INTERVIEW`, `CORPUS_MAGIC`.