If you’re a regular reader of the Saturday Rumpus, you know I love Ted.com. I’m a sucker for the presentations of new tech and new research, and even of the performances. But there are times when it seems that the presenters don’t seem to realize the implications of their research, or if they do, they’re doing a great job of eliding them.
NIcholas Christakis’s talk on the ability to use social networks to predict epidemics is one of those presentations that can make you, while you’re watching it, go from “incredible” to “whoa, hold on there” in a split-second. Enjoy it.
