Thinking Ahead - Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market Society

• Main Author: Helbing, Dirk (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data mining.; Application software.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Complexity, Computational.; Economic history.; Sociology.; Computer Science.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Methodology/History of Economic Thought.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Sociological Theory.; Complexity.

The rapidly progressing digital revolution is now touching the foundations of the governance of societal structures. Humans are on the verge of evolving from consumers to prosumers, and old, entrenched theories – in particular sociological and economic ones – are falling prey to these rapid developm...