A knock-back. 123PassportPhoto. Free Football, match schedule, streams, live TV, Premier League, La Liga. A collection of Damn Interesting things. Article #345 • written by Alan Bellows On 12 November 1971, in the presidential palace in the Republic of Chile, President Salvador Allende and a British theorist named Stafford Beer engaged in a highly improbable conversation.
Beer was a world-renowned cybernetician and Allende was the newly elected leader of the impoverished republic. Beer, a towering middle-aged man with a long beard, sat face to face with the horn-rimmed, mustachioed, grandfatherly president and spoke at great length in the solemn palace.