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The talk I gave at TEDxZurich on October 25, 2012.
It was featured on TED.com on February 13, 2013:)
http://www.ted.com/talks/james_b_glattfelder_who_controls_the_world.html
***Corrections:
- At 03:54 I blacked out (which was kindly cut by the editor:) and I forgot to say this:
You can then understand the complex system by simulating it in a computer. As an example, you need three simple rules to simulate swarming behavior:
- Move in the same direction as your neighbor
- Stay close to your neighbor, but avoid collisions
If you think this is no big deal, think again. No one saw this coming. And to this day no one really knows why this is the way things are. Its as if reality is giving us a big help in understanding how stuff works. Like the miracle I mentioned before, that equations mirror the workings of the universe.
- At 09:02 I meant to say center not core.
*** Links:
-TED blog: http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/13/who-controls-the-world-resources-for-understanding-this-visualization-of-the-global-economy/
-TEDxZurich: http://www.tedxzurich.com/2012/08/james-b-glattfelder/
-Original video: http://youtu.be/vSSKpL87_Rs called Who Controls the World: James B. Glattfelder at TEDxZurich
-The study: http://bit.ly/zZ8qLq
-Fighting the info wars: http://j-node.blogspot.ch/2011/10/network-of-global-corporate-control.html
-The full list: http://ethz.focproject.net/viewer/tnc
-The slides can be found here: http://ubuntuone.com/58XIoB0KNAiFd5X4BHrWEk
*** Credits:
Thank you Stefania Vitali and Stefano Battiston for being awesome co-authors.
Thank you @gklain for making this happen.
Thank you http://ronaldslabbers.com/ for the cool slides design.
Thanks to @lazyhotstepper and @kompostnyc for helping.
And thanks to the really nice TEDxZurich crew for organizing this...")
