The future comes to you in the way we’ve never imagined. It’s all about the way we talk, walk, live, and etc., those data spread in the corner we neglected. Then the technology takes in, suddenly we all entered into the era of massive passive data collection.
Nicholas Christakis- a Harvard professor, in his speech of TED showed how the social networks could be utilized to early warn the epidemic, to notify the traffic jam, to immunize in an efficient way and the like. Social network technique is a powerful weapon to make a world a better place, and vice versa.
To view the ingenious and fascinating speech, just a click to the hyperlink below：
http://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_christakis_how_social_networks_predict_epidemics.html
