Posted on 01/09/2017 2:42:22 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
FULL TITLE: Is civilization heading for a COLLAPSE? Mathematical historian predicts political turmoil will peak in the 2020s
A professor of Ecology and Mathematics from the University of Connecticut, Peter Turchin has led the development of a cross-disciplinary subject called 'cliodynamics'.
'Cliodynamics is a new 'transdisciplinary discipline' that treats history as just another science,' Professor Turchin says.
He started out using maths to predict human activity from 1500 B.C.E. to 1500 C.E.
Then three years ago, using similar models, he began to forecast the future.
'My model indicated that social instability and political violence would peak in the 2020s,' he says.
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Did any mathematical model predict that America’s most famous billionaire playboy would step up to the plate to save his country from both political parties?
A small part of me wants to shed tears for those simple and naïve enough to still believe there’s hope for a peaceful solution to the destructionist infestation.
A much bigger part of me just wants to kick them to the curb so they’re out of the way and the work of curing the rot can get started.
I will read this, but my response to the title is heavy skepticism.
Good question - and I do believe I read an article where a mathematician did actually predict his win. Or maybe it was a statistician?
He’s probably right.
By the 2020’s most of us will start going to that great Tea Party in the sky.
Then the Millenials who would have given Hillary 334 EV’s if they were the only ones voting can sing Kumbaya and go marching bravely off into that Brave New Green Sustainable Socialist World.
Is civilization heading for a COLLAPSE?
Is this a trick question?
Been tried before, it was called Marxism. It was a failure because it discarded the ability of individuals to change the course of history, among other things. If the election of Trump shows anything, it's how powerful one individual can be in changing the course of events in unpredictable ways.
Your response is always healthy actually.
I take the same approach.
Bruce Wayne saved America? I thought he only bothered with Gotham City.
The Foundation will rise................
A statistician. And he doesn’t like Trump but still claimed it accurately and objectively. I had a feeling Trump would win because Americans cannot have the same political tilt for 8 years. It has always been a cycle and Trump should have another 4 years historically..
Hmmmn. Turmoil by 2020 eh?
Well, definitely turmoil before 01-20-20(17).
Shades of Asimov.
In the case of Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch and his collection of clowns, shades of the Empire.
Bruce Wayne?
HAHAHAHAHA
did this guy also work on glpbal warming,,,???
does he factor in
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN WITH JOBS AND LEADERSHIP
BREXIT
THE TOTAL COLLAPSE OF THE DEMOCRAT LIBTARD WING OF THE PARTY
THE REVIVAL OF NAITIONALISM
THE FAILURE OF THE GLOBALISTS
THE COLLAPSE OF THE EU
EUROPEANS RISING UP TO EJECT JIAHDI INVASION
What goes up must come down.
You can't go wrong predicting that.
So long as you don't put a definite date on it.
Thinks he’s Hari Seldon? Want’s to shape the future for his own purpose?
Azimov?
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