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Google as God? Opportunities and Risks of the Information Age
Dirk Helbing
If God did not exist - people would invent one. The development of human civilization requires mechanisms promoting cooperation and social order. One of these mechanisms is based o…
Socio-inspired ICT - Towards a socially grounded society-ICT symbiosis
A. Ferscha, K. Farrahi, J. van denHoven +4
Modern ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has developed a vision where the "computer" is no longer associated with the concept of a single device or a network of device…
How Natural Selection Can Create Both Self- and Other-Regarding Preferences, and Networked Minds
Thomas Grund, Christian Waloszek, Dirk Helbing
Biological competition is widely believed to result in the evolution of selfish preferences. The related concept of the `homo economicus' is at the core of mainstream economics. Ho…
Introduction: The FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator Towards a More Resilient and Sustainable Future
Dirk Helbing
The FuturICT project is a response to the European Flagship Call in the Area of Future and Emerging Technologies, which is planning to spend 1 billion EUR on each of two flagship p…