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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Jul 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted The Atlantic

      Great questions! Lucky for us, there are hundred+ books on the former and a good number on the latter. The first is a *founding* question of sociology! Discussed in Socy 101 classes. Sure! Let's do more research but don't need to invent "studies" for the way article suggests.https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1156260396317253632 …

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      Why did the Industrial Revolution start when it did? Why did Silicon Valley happen in California rather than Japan or Boston? Human progress is understudied, and @patrickc and @tylercowen want to change that. http://on.theatln.tc/mlOXOp2 
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Jul 2019

      delete *for and invent the edit button, ktx.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Jul 2019

          I've personally read probably about a dozen *great* books on "Why did the Industrial Revolution start when it did." I mean, it's not even my area of expertise, I just read about dozen great books on the side on this because the topic is so widely studied that it's hard to avoid.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Jul 2019

          That said, I'd genuinely read more on this topic, it's a great one. That's why historians, sociologists, economists, STS-folks and many many others have been working on exactly this question for so long. It's a bit overstudied, perhaps, but great questions can bear overstudy.

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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Jul 2019

          New insights are always possible. But hopefully building on existing work. Danger of inventionism is this: to understand anti-vaccination waves, one needs to read Hofstadter. To understand Instagram drama, one needs to read Goffman. Unfortunately, funders tend to like "all new"!

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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Jul 2019

          Let's start this with a tour of library shelves @patrickc. 😀 👋Why is progress uneven and why and how is an awesome question with an enormous amount of good, deep and substantive existing work. It's not understudied.

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        1. Loves non-destructive capitalism  ☕️ 🍻‏ @Mike___Weaver 30 Jul 2019
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          Redesign Facebook to be "Twitter, but with an edit button", "secret messaging woot woot", and "real names only ha yeah right" and I'll log in. Deal? ;-)

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        1. posty@aus.social‏ @posty 30 Jul 2019
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          FYI @MastodonProject has solved this problem in a different way - Delete and redraft button :). Have you ever written any thoughts on Mastodon? I can't find any here or on google. Incidentally this search is impossible by default on mastodon.pic.twitter.com/ibbkgXy4ET

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