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Microsoft says social science will be the next frontier of science and technology

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

Microsoft Research New England head notes  that social science will be the next frontier of science and technology. Where creativity meets technology - Boston.com   Related articles A New Kind Of Social Science For The 21st Century (lookingbeyondborders.com) What's Soft about Social Science? (everydaysociologyblog.com) Adventures in Ideas: Which Social Science Should Die? (freakonomics.com) Social Science … Continue reading Microsoft says social science will be the next frontier of science and technology

The promise and perils of cities

by timbatchelder, posted in Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Linguistic Search, Systems Science

Cities have been the engines of civilization for millennia, serving as places where the arts, commerce, and ideas flourish.  But as we are reminded in a recent article, the close social interactions that make a city so productive also proved ideal for tuberculosis, measles, the plague, and many other diseases. In European capitals, circa 1800, … Continue reading The promise and perils of cities