If then how the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
"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...
| Main Author: | Lepore, Jill, 1966- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: What if?
- The social network. Madly for Adlai ; Impossible man ; The quiet American ; Artificial intelligence ; Project Macroscope
- The people machine. The IBM president ; Billion-dollar brain ; Fail-safe
- The four-eighty
- Hearts and minds. Armies of the night ; The things they carried ; The fire next time ; An octoputer ; The Mood Corporation
- Epilogue: More data.