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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.
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/01/2021
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.55w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9781324091127
About the Author
Lepore, Jill: - Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, professor of law at Harvard Law School, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the New York Times bestsellers These Truths and We the People. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/01/2021
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.55w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9781324091127
About the Author
Lepore, Jill: - Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, professor of law at Harvard Law School, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the New York Times bestsellers These Truths and We the People. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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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.
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/01/2021
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.55w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9781324091127
About the Author
Lepore, Jill: - Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, professor of law at Harvard Law School, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the New York Times bestsellers These Truths and We the People. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/01/2021
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.55w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9781324091127
About the Author
Lepore, Jill: - Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, professor of law at Harvard Law School, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the New York Times bestsellers These Truths and We the People. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
