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

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future is a history of the company founded by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison that, with its revolutionary technology, changed and still influences our world. It tells the story of the Simulmatics Corporation from its inception in 1873 to 1920. The author Jill Lepore combines historical narrative with science and social commentary as she explores how a device that was first conceived of as a means to help disabled people can actually be used to predict future events or even shape them.

Jill Lepore, writes a thought-provoking history of the Simulmatics Corporation that helped create the future.

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future is a book about the complexities of predicting the future. It explores how today's largest tech companies are based on simulations, which became possible with advances in computer science. Jill Lepore examines how Silicon Valley has become an industry based around simulations and how these technologies have changed our lives.

The book covers how the Simulmatics Corporation, a small company in Illinois founded in 1885, would eventually invent and sell one of every three telephones in America. The story begins with a description of the inventor's General Thomas Alva Edison and his inventions.

In 1984, Jill Lepore wrote "If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future," a non-fiction book about the origin of interactive storytelling. The book was eventually turned into an audiobook narrated by Lepore, which is now available for download on Audible.com.

Jill Lepore is the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of The Mansion of Happiness: Notes on American Life, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, and The Republican Court: Franklin, Jefferson, & Hemings. With If Then - How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future audiobook download, she explores how a company invented the future we live in today with a fascinating history that draws parallels to science fiction.