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In any case, Ferguson’s prediction for the flu proved even more incorrect than his mad cow estimate. A total of forty-three people died from the H5N1 flu in 2005, according to the WHO, meaning Ferguson was off by a factor of millions.17 Yet Ferguson only became more important in the years that followed.

The Use of Knowledge in Society, de Friedrich Hayek, est incontestablement l'une des analyses les plus importantes jamais écrites. Contrairement aux travaux modernes de recherches académiques hautement théoriques et ésotériques, cette étude de onze pages continue à être lue soixante-dix ans après sa publication et a exercé un impact durable sur les

observer effect, by which individuals under study modify their behavior because of their awareness of the study.

infiniment plus grande que nécessaire. À la fin du XIXe siècle, le brillant biologiste Thomas Huxley (1825-1895), fervent défenseur de Darwin et grand-père d’Aldous Huxley, déclara même devant le Parlement britannique qu’il serait impossible à l’humanité d’épuiser les ressources des océans. Leur pouvoir de régénération était simplement trop

studying the motivations of individuals in isolation: the patterns we see are a fundamentally social affair. More, as Anderson

So, participation is risky in that sense.

“You don’t want the entire innovation system made up of DARPA, and you don’t want the entire innovation system made up of NIH grants, and you don’t want it made up of any one thing,” Azoulay said. “We want a well-tempered balance of experiments: let a thousand initiatives bloom, track their long-term success, and determine whether there are better