Posts Tagged ‘ Behavioral Economist ’

The Spy That Nudged Me

Feb 9th, 2010 | By Kevin Hayden | Category: Social Networking

Once we enter what James Cascio called the “participatory panopticon” and the permanent record of our actions are stored away in the prison of social media archives such as Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, WordPress and the like, diminishing returns come into play. The ability of behavioral economists to accurately profile users and anticipate their actions declines proportionately to the increasing awareness of the observer in the life of the observed.