If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

Jill Lepore

nonfiction history politics technology challenging informative slow-paced

432 pages | first published 2020

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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, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley li...
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