## general

[How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/how-the-simulmatics-corporation-invented-the-future) 2020
> To conventional polls and political analysis, Simulmatics added computer simulations, not unlike, say, the simulations used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to predict the number of new covid-19 cases given various scenarios. A simulation program works by way of endless if/then statements: if this, then that. if/then was the syntax of Simulmatics’ reports

- [Silicon Valley’s belief that it can optimize society goes back a long way, as Jill Lepore argues in her new book “If Then.”](https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/19/1006365/if-then-lepore-review-simulmatics/) and [PDF](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/4816/The%2Blong_%2Bcomplicated%2Bhistory%2Bof%2B_E2_80_9Cpeople%2Banalytics_E2_80_9D%2B_%2BMIT%2BTechnology%2BReview.pdf)

- [The Hype Machine](https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008277117/ref=cm_sw_r_em_api_i_cegyFb415YWRB) by Sinan Aral  ... researcher, startuper, now investor

[The Hype Machine: The Promise and the Peril of Social Media | Sinan Aral -Hidden Forces](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/hype-machine-promise-peril-social-media-sinan-aral/id1205359334?i=1000491166343?i=1000491166343)
[We found that false news was more novel than true news, which suggests that people were more likely to share novel information. ](https://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146) Science 2018


## technical

2013 [Crises and collective socio-economic phenomena: simple models and challenges](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1209.0453.pdf) Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

[Mapping individual behavior in financial markets: synchronization and anticipation](https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-019-0188-6) 2019

- [Ensuring the Data Rich Future of the Social Sciences](https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/12724029/DataandtheFutureoftheSocialSciences.pdf?sequence=1) by Gary King