[kirillseva]

Imagine soviet government running Hadoop MapReduce jobs and using "big data" to drive GOSPLAN? Would be a marvel to watch this soul-crushing efficiency machine.

[ttflee]

Would be a good soviet-punk fiction concept, like what-if Internet were invented in and dominated by Soviet.

[peoplewindow]

GOSPLAN didn't fail because of lack of MapReduce. I don't think you could make a planned economy even with all the big data tools that exist today. There's far too much important information affecting prices that isn't represented in any database.