Die Weisheit der Herden: wie soziale Stimmung die Welt bewegt ✼

New Scientist:

Empirical evidence suggests that events taking place in periods of positive social mood are of a dramatically different character from events you can expect when the mood is negative -- thus the importance of mood as an early-warning indicator for extreme events in human society, suggests futurist John Casti.

One very useful measure of the social mood, reflecting both actions and herding, is a financial market average.

Schon ein wenig Popcorn-Kino. Aber interessantes.

Via KurzweilAI.net.