If Then - How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Verlag | Norton |
Auflage | 2021 |
Seiten | 432 |
Format | 13,9 x 2,6 x 20,8 cm |
Gewicht | 342 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9781324091127 |
Bestell-Nr | 32409112UA |
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.