Archive for the 'trends' Category

How trends propagate

January 31, 2008

Very interesting read about rebutting the ideas of Gladwell and his “tipping point” viral epicenter. Especially this sentence strikes a point with me:
“[...] researchers like anthropologist Pascal Boyer, who studies the psychology of religion, argue that our brains have evolved with an overactive agency-recognition system: We look for—and find—individual intention and design behind any pattern, [...]