Mike Cooley, one of the key people in the Lucas workers plan stressed that technology and its use (or abuse) is first and formost a political question. This was amply visible in the 'Project Cybersyn' that you mention, although you'll need to read a book on it 'Cyber Revolutionaries' to really start to understand that particular project and how ideology needs to always have precidence over technology if things aren't to go in strange and unwanted directions during a process of technological change.