"That's right!" Colonel Koskitov affirmed Serov's statement and said casually, "But like you KGB, our leaders are only interested in faster and smaller computers, and not in cybernetics, which serves communism, and we can try this completely......"

Based on the use of electronic computers, the management of manual and individual forms has been transformed into the management of automated systems, so as to completely change and improve the methods and means of economic management. Colonel Koskitov had proposed to first install computers in a number of large enterprises and government agencies, and then to link them together to form large complexes or networks, and eventually to create a unified automated management system for the country's economy.

Serov could understand the wonderful prospect of Colonel Koskitov's mouth, but there was one problem that could not only be solved by the success of academic theory, but one of the unacceptable features of this set of cybernetics, which Serov himself could see at a moment, that once the control network for the national planned economy was established, there would be many cadres in the entire Soviet Union who would have nothing to do, in other words, a large number of cadres would seem very redundant.

So it will appear that as soon as a nationwide computer network and automated management system for the entire economy is successfully established, the cadres of the entire Union will be reduced to nothingness. In other words, this is a butt problem, not an academic problem, and the establishment of a nationwide computer network and an automated management system will put the current Soviet cadres in a dispensable situation. So is this system suitable for the United States? The answer is the same is no, the Americans will not put forward this set of theories that completely serve the planned economy, otherwise the United States will be no different from the Soviet Union, since everyone is a planned economy, the attitude of the United States and the Soviet Union to confront and be hostile to the Soviet Union is rather ridiculous.

To put it simply, the Soviet Union had the academic soil for putting forward cybernetics, but it also had the economic soil for this set of theories. But there is no political soil for cybernetics, and as for the political soil for cybernetics on the side of the United States, there are no remaining conditions.

"Comrade Serov, this is the appeal of our cybernetic experts last year, you look at it!" Colonel Koskitov attached great importance to Serov, a new student, and there were many bigwigs in Moscow. However, when it comes to the KGB department, people often think of Serov, the first deputy chairman who has made great progress in the past eight years, mainly because the KGB is huge and cannot be ignored, and there is also the presence of Serov in hot spots.

If it weren't for the fact that he had just relieved the NKVD of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs to Lieutenant General Alexey, Serov would have been the first deputy chairman of the three directorates of the General Directorate, and even now the General Directorate of Internal Defense and the General Directorate of Military Administration are led by this young man.

The most successful security cadre since the establishment of the State Security Committee of the USSR, this aura is well known to Colonel Koskitov, an officer of the Ministry of Defense.

Taking Colonel Koskitov's papers, Serov knew at a glance that this was definitely in line with his conjecture. As mentioned above, the automated management system of the national economy based on a unified regional network of information computing centers will provide for the automatic collection of economic data. planning and resource allocation, banking, and traffic control.

They claim that it only takes two or three minutes for a computer to do a task that would take a person a week to complete. Considering that almost one million people in various regional economic committees and individual enterprises are involved in the processing of supply documentation, this potential savings looks very significant. The introduction of computers will drastically reduce the supply planning time from three or four months to three days, cut management in half, and reduce the cost of supply management to one-fifth. They believe that the cost of installing the computer will be recouped within two years. They promised that computers would greatly improve the efficiency and productivity of economic management. Lay the foundation for the national economic upsurge.

Once it really succeeds, it will undoubtedly be a big earthquake for the cadre class in the Soviet Union. No wonder Khrushchev did not agree to this plan either, Serov closed the document and said, "Comrade Koskitov, if I am not mistaken, you should have had a hard time in the Ministry of Defense lately, you should have been ostracized by some ......"

For the movement of another powerful department. Serov, the head of the secret service, knew very well that if it weren't for Koskitov's current ostracism, he wouldn't have looked for this person as his teacher. Out of professional habit, that is, to get that feeling that I can see you and you can't see me. The KGB was very interested in the application of various new technologies to the field of intelligence, and as one of the leaders of the KGB, Serov was no exception. Cybernetics? Take control of the whole world? There is a sense of omniscient and omnipotent.

"Stay and eat, let's talk slowly!" Serov invited Koskitov with a warm smile. Behind this smile is the excitement of taking control of the Union-wide communications vision through the revolution in computer technology. As for whether the KGB will face massive layoffs after its success, it doesn't matter, Serov can send the extra people abroad. Espionage work is never afraid of crowds.

"As with many of the problems we encounter in our work, I have never doubted the assumptions of scientists in all walks of life, just like the communism we are practicing in practice, but we always encounter problems in practice. The idea of cybernetics can be regarded as a kind of future idealized life, the only place that does not adapt is that the development of our current technology is still somewhat unable to support the idea of cybernetics. "In the public cafeteria at Lubyanka Square 11, Colonel Koskitov, surrounded by hundreds of professional KGB people, went from being a speaker to an audience.

Serov's knowledge of the history of computer development is limited to a few key terms, but these terms are basically sufficient, the first generation of tube computers, the second generation of transistor computers, the third generation of small and medium-sized integrated circuit computers, literally he did not even know how many generations he used in later generations, but one thing is certain, the Soviet transistor industry did not solve the problem of reliability, even if Colonel Koskitov's imagination was implemented, It is estimated that the computer network of the whole Soviet Union was also propped up by tube computers.

On the basis of what is available, these cybernetics experts have drawn up a plan that exceeds the capacity of computers in the sixties, and even if Khrushchev gets the green light all the way, it is estimated that a batch of computers with tubes will be produced, and then the transistors will appear and the tubes will be eliminated, and the integrated circuits will be eliminated. Just as the Soviet Union had to build a communist society under the existing conditions, from Koskitov's mouth, Serov assessed why it was necessary to wait for the transistor technology to mature, and then it might be directly put into practice on a computer with integrated circuits as the main body, and the most optimistic estimate would take ten years.

As a spy chief of an intelligence department, at this time Serov was able to talk to this expert from very shallow knowledge, because the sources of the two sides were quite unequal, Serov had the entire KGB global network as a source of information, and if it wasn't enough, it didn't matter, as well as his own future memories. And Colonel Koskitov's area of expertise is limited to the theory of computers, and a little knowledge of transistors may be added. In this way, the discussion between the two sides is very simple, although Serov only knows a little about everything, but he does not know too much, he can also talk with Koskitov, an expert, of course, pay attention to the strengths and avoid weaknesses, and not talk in depth in places that he does not understand very well.

"First of all, the development of transistors must be applied to the computer field, otherwise the computer you plan will be too large, and it will be eliminated soon!" Citing his last trip to the Leningrad Institute, Serov said of Suzanne and her teacher Kraslov, "Transistors are lighter in terms of size. An ordinary vacuum tube is about the size of a light bulb, while an ordinary transistor is only the size of a soybean. In terms of physique, transistors are more leathery. Since transistors do not have fragmented parts such as filaments and metal plates, their structure is much stronger than that of vacuum tubes, and transistors also live much longer than vacuum tubes. And vacuum tubes in military equipment are inevitably bumped. Transistors are more economical than energy consumption. For the same magnification, transistors typically consume only a quarter of the power of a vacuum tube, or even less. Moreover, there is a warm-up time for the vacuum tube to be turned on, and the filament must reach a certain temperature to "bake" enough electrons to achieve amplification. Transistors, on the other hand, are immediately in operation as soon as they are switched on, not only do they not waste valuable power, but more importantly, the response speed is greatly improved. ”

"The replacement of electron tubes and transistors may be today, or this year, but it won't be too long, Mr. Koskitov, do you still think that it is necessary to build a cybernetic network so quickly?" Serov looked at the silent Colonel Koskitov and asked with a smile.

"I also went to the institute of Suzanne and her teacher Kraslov, when transistor research had not yet progressed!" Koskitov said in surprise.

Serov indifferently pointed to his epaulettes and said, "Sometimes our scientists need a way of thinking, and when our scientists can't get out of the misunderstanding themselves, they need another thought as a reference." In fact, our KGB is also an intelligence department, although it is not exactly ......"

At present, the Leningrad Research Institute already has samples of transistors from its American counterparts, which of course is due to the work of the KGB, which is simply stolen, and for a department like the KGB, if it is determined to steal a piece of civilian technology, it will find an opportunity sooner or later. Isn't there a saying that if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves...... (To be continued.) )