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Psychohistory depends on the idea that, while one cannot foresee the actions of a particular individual, the laws of statistics as applied to large groups of people could predict the general flow of future events.
Interesting historical overview of ideas about systems, e.g., the invisible hand, complexity theory, Erdos numbers, the tipping point, networks, etc. -- download his slides to get an abridged, visual version.... "I want to finish today by telling you abou
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The closing keynote from dConstruct 2008 in Brighton.
What a brilliant random bastard Jeremy Keith is. Damn. I love him.
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