physorg.com July 25, 2011 Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) at Rensselaer, used computational and analytical […]
Month: July 2011
Be the change, collective creativity
Just back from the World Futures Society Conference in Vancouver. Can’t help but see that tomorrow’s world will not be anything like it is today, or was yesterday. Whether you like it or not, we are on the brink of massive change. According to the Millennium Project, we face 15 overriding challenges for the future, […]
Inside Social Networkers – People who visit Facebook 5+ times a day get more support
Research Brief: Social Networkers Under A Microscope According to a new survey from The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, designed to examine the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites (SNS) like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter, Facebook dominates the SNS space with 92% of SNS users using Facebook, 29% […]
