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If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
by Jill Lepore
· published 2020 · read 2025-08-17
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Half a history of Simulmatics; half a history of the introduction of behavioral science into the 1960s. Chilling to recognize that nearly all the Simulmatics founders ended up going mad; wonder what conclusions we should draw seeing how the methods they pioneered in the 1960s are everywhere today.