“The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges.” NeedsHumansTodayIndividualSocialUnderstandingRealizingNaturalChallengesOur LivesPromiseOffersEqualBehaviorIntellectualStructureDeeperWelfareCollectivesImprovingSocial ScienceNatural ScienceDeeper Understanding Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.” HumansSocialAbilityViolenceMediaHavensChangedInternetCapacityFundamentalsSocial MediaAttributesInteractionPropensitySocial Interaction Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think about the inevitable genetic revolution in medicine that is going to allow us to advertently change our genes over centuries and even decades.” ThinkingWayHumansMayHas BeensRealizingCenturyRevolutionMedicineDecadesInevitableGenes Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.” HumansSocialHuman BeingsBrainTechnologyGroupsCapacityInteractionHuman BrainSocial InteractionConstrain Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
