If handled appropriately, data about Internet-based communication and interactivity could revolutionize our understanding of collective human behaviour.
Few would deny that many of the major problems currently facing humanity are social and economic in nature. From the apparent wave of religious fundamentalism sweeping the Islamic world (and parts of the Western world), to collective economic security, global warming and the great epidemics of our times, powerful yet mysterious social forces come into play.
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%A Watts, Duncan J.
%D 2007
%J Nature
%K nature
%N 7127
%P 489--489
%R 10.1038/445489a
%T A Twenty-First Century Science
%V 445
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Few would deny that many of the major problems currently facing humanity are social and economic in nature. From the apparent wave of religious fundamentalism sweeping the Islamic world (and parts of the Western world), to collective economic security, global warming and the great epidemics of our times, powerful yet mysterious social forces come into play.},
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