FYI: "Yesterday Wired published an article by Klint Finley, Mathematicians Predict the Future With Data From the Past. Apart from a couple of minor details Klint does a good job explaining the goals and the methods of Cliodynamics. However, he (or his editor; it is almost always editors who come up with titles) couldn’t resist injecting a bit of sensationalism by implying that Cliodynamics can predict the future. I don’t blame him – it’s part of the business they are in. But here, in my blog, where I have no editors over me and nothing to sell, I want to make it absolutely clear that CLIODYNAMICS IS NOT ABOUT PREDICTING THE FUTURE! [...]" http://socialevolutionforum.com/2013/04/12/scientific-predic...
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