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Predicting the future from the social media swamp
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Predicting the future from the social media swamp
Forecasters relying on the internet's Hive Mind only find out what people pretend to be thinking
Andrew Orlowski 16 May 2022 • 11:00am
About 20 years ago my techno-utopian friends in California began to have a strange glint in their eye. It’s the sort of glint people acquire after joining a religious cult, and they were obsessed with a new idea. What they believed was that with so many people now communicating via the internet, what they called a "Hive Mind" was beginning to emerge. And from this we could derive people’s thoughts and intentions....
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