If then: how the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future

Prologue: What if?

The social network. Madly for Adlai ; Impossible man ; The quiet American ; Artificial intelligence ; Project Macroscope

The people machine. The IBM president ; Billion-dollar brain ; Fail-safe

The four-eighty

Hearts and minds. Armies of the night ; The things they carried ; The fire next time ; An octoputer ; The Mood Corporation

Epilogue: More data.