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If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future QUOTES

1 " It seems to me unthinkable that a man with his background of slander, abuse, innuendo, expediency and resort to all the most devious political devices should ever occupy an office which we have tried for generations to exalt in the esteem of young people and the world, "

― Jill Lepore , If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

2 " But by 1904 the Times, like other big-city papers, had all sorts of ways of telling its readers about the outcomes, as soon as the numbers were in. On Election Night, it broadcast the results from its building in New York by way of searchlights that could be seen for thirty miles, as if the building itself had become a lighthouse. Steady light to the west meant a Republican victory in the presidential race, steady light to the east a Democratic one; flashing lights in different combinations broadcast the winners of congressional and gubernatorial races. This is what’s meant by a news “flash.”4 "

― Jill Lepore , If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

3 " In 1952, Republicans spent $1.5 million on television advertising to the Democrats’ puny $77,000. "

― Jill Lepore , If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

4 " Vietnamese men, women, and children were dying, starving, being shot, bombed, burned, and napalmed. American soldiers were being shipped home in boxes, coffins, and bags. And the U.S. government was paying an Upper West Side Freudian analyst to explain that the Vietnamese, as a people, had Oedipal issues. "

― Jill Lepore , If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

5 " Simulmatics died. The fantasy of predicting human behavior by way of machines did not. Instead, it took new forms, forms that depended on forgetting that Simulmatics had ever existed. "

― Jill Lepore , If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

6 " Simulacra and Simulation, a metatext about the meaningless “hell of simulation. "

― Jill Lepore , If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

7 " tax "

― Jill Lepore , If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future