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Which is where cybernetic control considerations come in. Both distributed and centralized planning need to coexist cooperatively to have a really effective economy, regardless whether it's socialist or capitalist. Modern information technologies make the socialist variation much more viable.

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The Austrians were/are almost just the other side of the same coin, all of their recommendations (and I believe this is intentional as I Believe they were/are essentially just a PR firm for powerful special interests) led/lead to hyper centralized private sector central planning, not "market driven decision making". Also, in my personal opinion, a lack of computational power and telecommunications networking was the least of their problems and maybe wasn;t actually much of a problem at all. One example of this that a plan meeting logical conditions could be consistently applied in a many commodity, many enterprise economy with hundreds of thousands organizational agents and hundreds of millions of people ignores the hyper complexity of real world dynamics. The simplification into a matrix format doesnt account for qualitative diffs between goods, inter and intra regional dynamics, or the extremely large number of big, medium, and small unforeseen events.

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