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Predicting Social Behavior of Tribes and Misinformation

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IT WAS the 1960s into the early 1970s. The Cambridge-trained professor, enamored of his puns and often insensitive to criticism, rambled on in his own somewhat disjointed way. To some,… Click to show full abstract

IT WAS the 1960s into the early 1970s. The Cambridge-trained professor, enamored of his puns and often insensitive to criticism, rambled on in his own somewhat disjointed way. To some, he imparted wise parables, whereas many of his academic peers considered him a bit of an eccentric crackpot. Nonetheless, his insight, obtuse as it was at the time, seems to have an enduring, if not a still highly debatable quality.1 In fact, Dr. Marshall McLuhan predicted the notion of the Internet in 1964, almost two decades before it became a newborn reality.2

Keywords: predicting social; behavior tribes; tribes misinformation; social behavior

Journal Title: IT Professional
Year Published: 2022

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