# The Foundation World Model That Might Have Been

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**Created:** [30 July 2024 20:10 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-foundation-world-model-that-might-have-been/4815 "2024-07-30T20:10:59Z")
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#### Post date: [9 July 2026 08:45 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-foundation-world-model-that-might-have-been/4815/65 "2026-07-09T08:45:31Z")

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> [@jabowery](#):
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> More importantly, by 2003 he had reframed it. He said the project was initially called the **System Dynamics National Model** because it was seen as representing the United States, but he had come to think that modeling a specific country was the wrong framing. The model, he said, now represented **“a general theory of economic behavior”** and could be parameterized for many industrial countries or even the developed world.

On this note, see Cybersyn:

[https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/dreams-of-a-soviet-internet/3067](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/dreams-of-a-soviet-internet/3067/2)

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