Berto Jongman: History, Big Data, Instability

History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future Turchin’s work – which incorporates not just history and maths, but also the research of economists, other social scientists, and environmental scientists – provides a much-needed corrective to decades of specialisation within these disciplines.

Berto Jongman: Pentagon Worried About Its Own Collapse in 20 Years…

Pentagon Report Predicts Collapse of US Military Within 20 Years Faced with the challenges of global climate change as well as the refugee crisis and armed conflicts it will create, the U.S. military may very well collapse. That’s the dire conclusion of a Pentagon-commissioned report about the future of the military, first published online in …