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Predicting pandemics with search engines

Lucy Bernholz

13 Nov 2008

Google has realized that it might be able to predict flu outbreaks by monitoring search patterns. To see what they see check out Google Flu Trends.

This is an example of the kind of disruptive innovation that becomes possible when you see new information or old information in new ways. Great potential for viewing philanthropic capital.

Tags: philanthropy, data, googleflu

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AI and Assembly

Ten years ago I co-edited a book called Philanthropy in Democratic Societies. We in the U.S. are no longer living in a functioning democracy. The nation is very much being run like the private family business that its inheriting son bankrupted repeatedly. He and his minions are now bankrupting
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Philanthropy in a fascist state

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News

The Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford is closed.* I've been fired. (All positions were eliminated, including mine. Call it laid off, made redundant, fired. I'm so deeply angry and disappointed it doesn't matter to me what you call it. People above my pay
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