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The Atlantic | April 2002 | Seeing Around Corners | Rauch

The new science of artificial societies suggests that real ones are both more predictable and more surprising than we thought. Growing long-vanished civilizations and modern-day genocides on computers will probably never enable us to foresee the future in detail but we might learn to anticipate the kinds of events that lie ahead, and where to look for interventions that might work