We almost took this road, fifty years ago.
I want to share with you a teeny glimpse of the future we might have had... in 1962, six years before Doug Engelbart demoed the first PC, twelve years before Ted Nelson invented hypertext, a Welsh cyberneticist named Stafford Beer - this guy here - was applying cybernetic ideas of feedback and homeostasis to organisations and companies.
Source: Spectre Footnotes
Matt Webb, Web Directions South 2014 (Sydney, Australia), October 2014