If then : how the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future / Jill Lepore.
If then : how the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future / Jill Lepore.
If then : how the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future / Jill Lepore.
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Publisher
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2020]
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G 2020/3898
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English
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Physical content
xii, 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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 car...
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Publisher
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2020]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2020]
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Summary
"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--deca...
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If then : how the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future / Jill Lepore.
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How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-390) and index.
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©2020
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G 2020/3898
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74VKaMKreaWX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaMKreaWX
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ISBN
1631496107 hardcover
9781631496103 hardcover
DDC
006.312
MMS ID
991024347605302626
