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In the December issue of Scientific American, author David Weinberger reports from the frontiers of knowledge. His story " The Machine That Would Predict the Future " explores the promise of the FuturICT project , an attempt to build a computer model of all the social, economic, ecological and scientific factors at play in the world.

A new statistical analysis indicates that the more Facebook fans an African politician has, the more likely they are to be forced from power.