Prologue
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
The United States Declaration of Independence after Thomas
Jefferson
2
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor
do they deserve, either one.
Benjamin Franklin
3
Many people know me as the scientist who has worked, among other things, on
traffic and pedestrian flows and crowd disasters. As some may still remember,
I have also been the initiator and scientific coordinator of the FuturICT project.
4
This project attracted serious interest of Google, NASA, the US government,
5
Russia
6 and China,
7 for example.
FuturICT was a visionary project for the digital age that was in the pole position
for Europe’s one billion dollar flagship funding.
8 You will find more information
about it in the Epilogue. In short: hundreds of scientists were ready to bring a new
2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence.
3
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/140634-those-who-surrender-freedom-for-security-will-nothave-nor.
4
See https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.futurict.eu.
5
The U.S. needs a FuturICT program to confront the challenges of the 21st century government,
GovLoop (January 2, 2013) https://www.govloop.com/community/blog/the-u-s-needs-a-futurictprogram-to-confront-the-challenges-of-21st-century-government/.
6
The FuturICT project on Russian TV: https://youtu.be/H3aKfswfGag.
7
The FuturICT project on Chinese National TV: https://youtu.be/a4rxb2r9SdI.
8
See http://www.futurict.eu and Participatory Science and Computing for Our Complex World,
EPJ Special Topics 214 (2012) https://link.springer.com/journal/11734/214/1/page/1.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
The United States Declaration of Independence after Thomas
Jefferson
2
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor
do they deserve, either one.
Benjamin Franklin
3
Many people know me as the scientist who has worked, among other things, on
traffic and pedestrian flows and crowd disasters. As some may still remember,
I have also been the initiator and scientific coordinator of the FuturICT project.
4
This project attracted serious interest of Google, NASA, the US government,
5
Russia
6 and China,
7 for example.
FuturICT was a visionary project for the digital age that was in the pole position
for Europe’s one billion dollar flagship funding.
8 You will find more information
about it in the Epilogue. In short: hundreds of scientists were ready to bring a new
2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence.
3
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/140634-those-who-surrender-freedom-for-security-will-nothave-nor.
4
See https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.futurict.eu.
5
The U.S. needs a FuturICT program to confront the challenges of the 21st century government,
GovLoop (January 2, 2013) https://www.govloop.com/community/blog/the-u-s-needs-a-futurictprogram-to-confront-the-challenges-of-21st-century-government/.
6
The FuturICT project on Russian TV: https://youtu.be/H3aKfswfGag.
7
The FuturICT project on Chinese National TV: https://youtu.be/a4rxb2r9SdI.
8
See http://www.futurict.eu and Participatory Science and Computing for Our Complex World,
EPJ Special Topics 214 (2012) https://link.springer.com/journal/11734/214/1/page/1.
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