"From theories of pedestrian movement and traffic flow to voting processes, economic markets and war, researchers are striving towards a physics of society"
"'It may be', said US sociologist George Lundberg in 1939, 'that the next great developments in the social sciences will come not from professed social scientists, but from people trained in other fields.' Take a look at any issue of a physical-sciences journal in the past five years and you will see one such field staking its claim vigorously. Physics is muscling its way into social science. Not content with explaining the behaviour of atoms and electrons, semiconductors, sand and space-time, physicists are now setting out to understand the behaviour of people."
It seems to me that the surest way to invite dystopia is to seek utopia. Witness communism, eugenics, and other vain efforts to make the world perfect through logic and reason.
Funky Dung
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