Conceivably, the coupling of the sensor and human streams with planetary computing power will make it possible to create "social forecasts".
American sociologist Daniel Bell first coined the term postindustrial in 1973 in his book The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting, which describes several features of a postindustrial society.
BERLIN — A counterinstinctive nugget: The rich countries' own agency for economic and social forecasting and analysis, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, now projects that the German economy will fall sharply in the last quarter of the year, performing at bottom level among industrialized countries during the period.
The normally poor state of social forecasting is compounded by the fact that individuals, in general, are terrible at knowing what they want in a significant other.
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Why can social scientists' forecasts go awry?
But, decades hence, a kind of social weather forecasting that would make reasonably specific predictions, with a reasonable amount of confidence, over short periods may not be out of the question.
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The Social Democrats were forecast to take 23.5 percent of the votes, little changed from 2006.
But absent structural changes to Medicare and Social Security, the forecast makes clear that such short-run improvements may not last.
