Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.
Keith Henson
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and... →
Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.
Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's... →
Marshall Herskovitz
Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to... →
Noreena Hertz
All company bosses want a policy on corporate social responsibility. The positive effect is hard to quantify, but the negative consequences of a... →
We must embrace a new agenda based on inclusiveness; a commitment to reconnecting the social and the economic; a relinking of the latter to a... →
I've become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future.
I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on social media.