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If then : how the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future  Cover Image Book Book

If then : how the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future

Lepore, Jill 1966- (author.).

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  • ISBN: 1631496107 :
  • ISBN: 9781631496103 :
  • Physical Description: xii, 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
    print
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Comapny, [2020]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-390) and index.
Subject: Simulmatics Corporation.
Data mining

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Hanover Libraries.

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Howe Library 006.312 LEP 31254003674963 Lower level Available -

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1001 . ‡aLepore, Jill, ‡d1966- ‡eauthor.
24510. ‡aIf then : ‡bhow the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future / ‡cJill Lepore.
250 . ‡aFirst edition.
264 1. ‡aNew York, NY : ‡bLiveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Comapny, ‡c[2020]
300 . ‡axii, 415 pages : ‡billustrations ; ‡c25 cm
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504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 335-390) and index.
520 . ‡a"A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller, These Truths. 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 likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of Simulmatics are the long-dead grandfathers of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Borrowing from psychological warfare, they used computers to predict and direct human behavior, deploying their "People Machine" from New York, Cambridge, and Saigon for clients that included John Kennedy's presidential campaign, the New York Times, Young & Rubicam, and, during the Vietnam War, the Department of Defense. Jill Lepore, distinguished Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, unearthed from the archives the almost unbelievable story of this long-vanished corporation, and of the women hidden behind it. In the 1950s and 1960s, Lepore argues, Simulmatics invented the future by building the machine in which the world now finds itself trapped and tormented, algorithm by algorithm"-- ‡cProvided by publisher.
650 0. ‡aData mining.
61020. ‡aSimulmatics Corporation.
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