Written for the general public, Social Physics takes us to the frontiers of research; where technology becomes the instrument for measuring social and behavioral sciences and mathematics which become their new formalism.
Social Physics describes research Pentland and his research group "Human Dynamics" smart badges called to replace our access cards, the "reality mining" and technical analysis meta-data mobile phones or openPDS, an open-source protection of privacy approach.
As many practical applications that give good examples of what awaits us in the 21st century!
