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“If army ants are wandering around and they get lost, they start to follow a simple rule: Just do what the ant in front of you does. The ants eventually end up in a circle. There’s this famous example of one that was 1,200 feet long and lasted for two days; the ants just kept marching around and around in a circle until they died.”
— James Surowiecki on the dangers of collective thinkingJames Surowiecki: When social media became news
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“The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds.”
— James SurowieckiJames Surowiecki: When social media became news
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