Jill Lepore

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

From the best-selling author of These Truths, an exhilarating (New York Times Book Review) account of the Cold War origins of our data-mad era.

The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledgedecades 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 Muskor 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781631496110
• Artikelnr.: 59775419

Autorenporträt

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and professor of law at Harvard Law School. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the international bestseller These Truths: A History of the United States. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Rezensionen

Lepore is a brilliant writer. It's a dream to read. Diane Coyle