If Then
Technology, history
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Databases
Technology, social aspects
Algorithms
Data mining
Technology
Social aspects
New York Times reviewed
The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of …
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