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If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

Jill Lepore

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Longlist:National Book Award -Non-Fiction (2020)
The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Although Silicon Valley likes to imagine that it has no past, the scientists of Simulmatics are almost undoubtedly the long-dead ancestors of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk--or so argues Jill Lepore, distinguished Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, in this "hilarious, scathing, and sobering" (David Runciman) account of the origins of predictive analytics and behavioral data science.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
  • Publish Date: Sep 14th, 2021
  • Pages: 432
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.23in - 5.55in - 1.03in - 0.74lb
  • EAN: 9781324091127
  • Categories: Corporate & Business History - GeneralIndustries - Computers & Information TechnologyComputer Simulation

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About the Author

Lepore, Jill: - Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and professor of law at Harvard Law School. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the international bestseller These Truths: A History of the United States. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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