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Predicting the Future

Crowdcast's Predictive Modeling Bets on Inside Knowledge

Peter Diamandis | Posted 04.29.2013 | Technology
Read More: X-Prize-Foundation, X Prize Foundation, X Prize, Predictive Modeling, Predicting the Future, Crowdsourcing, Technology News
Peter Diamandis

When will the product ship? How's the financing going? How's recruiting going? Everyone in business wants status reports. Too often, though, the feedback companies get can be biased by a lack of perspective.

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Does Touch Get the Math Right?

Dr. Keith Devlin | Posted 05.26.2012 | TV
Read More: Danny Glover, The Connected World, Fibonacci Sequence, Kiefer Sutherland, David Mazouz, Mathematics, Golden Ratio, Predicting the Future, Touch, numb3rs, Fibonacci, Fox TV, TV News
Dr. Keith Devlin

It would have been easy to get the math right in Touch. On the other hand, taken literally, the portrayal of the application of mathematics to the world by the young Jake is so way-over-the-top fictitious that inaccuracy in specific details does not adversely affect the storyline.

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'Bursts': Can Human Behavior Be Predicted And Controlled?

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Predicting Human Behavior, Future, Human Behavior, Science, Books, Bursts, Predicting the Future, Books News
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Humans can be understood, quantified, predicted and eventually controlled. Now, that is a scary thought!

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Can Dreams Predict the Future? Amy Hardie's New Documentary

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Adam Zeman, Edge of Dreaming, Mark Solms, Neuroscience, Dreams, Amy Hardie, Mortality, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Predicting the Future, Premonitions, Rem Sleep, Full Frame, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

Edge of Dreaming, a new documentary by Scottish director Amy Hardie, is the true story of the year following Hardie's own dream prophesy.

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