There are currently almost
7 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide, nearly overtaking the world’s population. While access to the data that this brings can be useful in rural areas, it is truly invaluable in large urban environments where aggregate data can reveal social trends, groupings, and fault lines that give leaders significant clarity about the social and physical landscape. If used correctly, it’s like handing the commander what
MIT’s Sandy Pentland calls a “socio-scope” that allows him to see and track things in real time that he could never see before.
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