Physicists, stamp collectors, human mobility forecasters
Physicists, stamp collectors, human mobility forecasters

Summary/Abstract: Albert-László Barabási, a world-renowned physicist, wrote a book in 2010 about the regularities of human behavior. Barabási asks the often-repeated question: “Is human behavior predictable?” Many believe that, since we cannot describe human actions with precision, we also cannot make predictive statements with reference to them. According to Barabási, however, “the future is foreseeable”. Who is right? Barabási’s answer is clear: we should believe the one who is doing the counting – the physicist.

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