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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 24 Mar 2017
      Replying to @zeynep

      I feel we're living in the next chapter of Tuchman's great book, "The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam". All this is solvable. sigh.

      4 replies 7 retweets 34 likes
    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Mar 2017
      Replying to @zeynep

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted I Could Be Wrong

      After wreaking havoc with the world for hundreds of years; and two global wars; and *almost* global annihilation.https://twitter.com/dansblog1/status/845310890765271040 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      I Could Be Wrong @dansblog1
      Replying to @ncweaver @zeynep
      So why is this wave of automation different from the last 200 years of them, all of which raised wc living standards?
      2 replies 10 retweets 20 likes
    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Mar 2017
      Replying to @zeynep

      I don't know how anyone who looks at the history of the previous industrial revolution and draws comfort. We almost did the whole world in.

      3 replies 21 retweets 75 likes
    4. Jon Schwarz‏Verified account @schwarz 24 Mar 2017
      Replying to @zeynep

      yes http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003420.html …pic.twitter.com/4RjgGLIS5M

      1 reply 61 retweets 74 likes
    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Apr 2017
      Replying to @schwarz @TinyRevolution

      just saw this yeah. I don't see how anybody gets optimism from history

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Jeff Atwood‏Verified account @codinghorror 1 Apr 2017
      Replying to @zeynep @TinyRevolution

      Lack of wars in the modern era, primarily https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace/ 

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Apr 2017
      Replying to @codinghorror @TinyRevolution

      post world war ii, yes. but people seemed to have already forgotten it. one generation away.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    8. Jeff Atwood‏Verified account @codinghorror 1 Apr 2017
      Replying to @zeynep @TinyRevolution

      People seem to grok that "hot" war is expensive and bad for business.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Apr 2017
      Replying to @codinghorror @TinyRevolution

      Iraq. Syria. Afghanistan.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Apr 2017
      Replying to @zeynep @codinghorror @TinyRevolution

      Now Yemen.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Apr 2017
      Replying to @zeynep @codinghorror @TinyRevolution

      I'm worried that our overlords think wars can be contained, just ruining local lives. 2017 arguably starts with Iraq 2003.

      2:14 PM - 1 Apr 2017
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        2. Paul Tiseo‏ @paultiseo 1 Apr 2017
          Replying to @zeynep @codinghorror @TinyRevolution

          Let's not forget that wars are getting more impersonal and AI-driven too.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paultiseo @codinghorror @TinyRevolution

          Not for the people on the receiving wnd but yes, more distantly waged.

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        1. Adam Lauretig‏ @lauretig 1 Apr 2017
          Replying to @zeynep @codinghorror @TinyRevolution

          Have you read @thoatley? He makes a related argument: US deficit military/war spending drives economic inequality & boom/bust cycle at home.

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