The Atom and the Amoeba: The Aesthetics of the Research Report and the Cold War Think Tank | October | MIT Press (opens in new tab)

The postwar think tank was tasked with communicating a complex host of research findings to aid the managerial class in their decision making, serving as a productive antagonist. The details of how this worked are of significance today because Disneyland was conceived alongside a new regime that continues to shape our present—a regime where our world, both physical and virtual, is operationalized through projections, trends, simulations, and feasibility studies aimed at optimizing returns, co...