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Pentagon Looks to Network Science to Predict Future
blog.wired.com — the emergence of "network science" may prove that prediction does work in at least one key regard. Isaac Asimov came up with the fictional idea of "psychohistory," which combined history, sociology and mathematics to predict the actions of large groups. It seems he wasn't far off.
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- AlwaysAwake, on 06/09/2008, -0/+1Terrorize enough people, and the "herd" mentality takes over. The trick is to keep us terrorized, because eventually people "tire' of being afraid. Then, they "go off the chain", the least favorite option for The Military Industrial Complex. Psychiatry labels this state of mind as PTSD, and behaviors, driven by extreme paranoia, while almost always aggressive, become very unpredictable.
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