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If Then - How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future (Paperback): Jill Lepore

If Then - How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future (Paperback)

Jill Lepore

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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.

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Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2021
Authors:	Jill Lepore
Dimensions:	211 x 140 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	432
ISBN-13:	978-1-324-09112-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	1-324-09112-6
Barcode:	9781324091127