Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the FuturICT community for the many inspiring discussions
and also everyone, who had to be patient with me in the last couple of years,
including my parents.
I am also very grateful to Philip Ball, Stefano Bennati, Anna Carbone, Andreas
Diekmann, Jeroen van den Hoven, Dietmar Huber, Eoin Jones, Caleb Koch,
Richard Mann, Heinrich Nax, Paul Ormerod, Evangelos Pournaras, Kay-Ti Tan,
and others for their valuable feedback on the manuscript and the many improvements (but don’t hold them responsible for any contents of this book). Jan Fasnacht,
Petr Neugebauer, Petra Parikova, and Felix Schulz have been a great help with
figures, formatting, references, permissions, and cover designs.
Furthermore, I would like to thank the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin—Institute
for Advanced Study for the creative atmosphere and excellent opportunity to do
research and prepare this book.
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I also like to acknowledge support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement
No. 833168), see: Using the Wisdom of Crowds to Make Cities Smarter, FuturICT Blog
(March 28, 2019) http://futurict.blogspot.com/2019/03/using-wisdom-of-crowds-to-make-cities.
html; furthermore, see: ERC 2018 Advanced Grants Highlighted Projects, ERC (March 27, 2019)
https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-2018-advanced-grants-highlighted-projects.
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I would like to thank the FuturICT community for the many inspiring discussions
and also everyone, who had to be patient with me in the last couple of years,
including my parents.
I am also very grateful to Philip Ball, Stefano Bennati, Anna Carbone, Andreas
Diekmann, Jeroen van den Hoven, Dietmar Huber, Eoin Jones, Caleb Koch,
Richard Mann, Heinrich Nax, Paul Ormerod, Evangelos Pournaras, Kay-Ti Tan,
and others for their valuable feedback on the manuscript and the many improvements (but don’t hold them responsible for any contents of this book). Jan Fasnacht,
Petr Neugebauer, Petra Parikova, and Felix Schulz have been a great help with
figures, formatting, references, permissions, and cover designs.
Furthermore, I would like to thank the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin—Institute
for Advanced Study for the creative atmosphere and excellent opportunity to do
research and prepare this book.
1
1
I also like to acknowledge support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement
No. 833168), see: Using the Wisdom of Crowds to Make Cities Smarter, FuturICT Blog
(March 28, 2019) http://futurict.blogspot.com/2019/03/using-wisdom-of-crowds-to-make-cities.
html; furthermore, see: ERC 2018 Advanced Grants Highlighted Projects, ERC (March 27, 2019)
https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-2018-advanced-grants-highlighted-projects.
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