If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore

If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

Jill Lepore

432 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics technology challenging informative slow-paced
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Founded in 1959 by some of the nation's leading social scientists--"the best and the brightest, fatally brilliant, Icaruses with wings of feathers and wax, flying to the sun"--Simulmatics proposed to predict and manipulate the future by way of the...

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