Thus, after Georg Klaus' work legitimizing cybernetics from an ML perspective, the GDR sought to use this new science to reform the economy into a technologically advanced socialist powerhouse, without introducing market mechanisms. Indeed, much like the USSR, the GDR would grow to see their computers as a precondition for the transition to communism, and would experiment with its own semiconductor industry - but you can follow that story here: https://youtu.be/cxrkC-pMH_s