The results raise questions of where and when a company could choose to exert this influence, but Glattfelder and Battiston are reluctant to speculate. "In thi

The results raise questions of where and when a company could choose to exert this influence, but Glattfelder and Battiston are reluctant to speculate. "In this kind of science, complex systems, you're not aiming at making predictions [like] ... where the tennis ball will be at given place in given time," Battiston said. It's nice to see that physicists are able to recognise the limits of knowledge when it comes to complex systems. You probably wouldn't hear a macroeconomist / econometrician say that, they would typically weigh in with some kind of prediction based on a dubious, self-referential model.