From Psychohistory to Curious Machines
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Company Nextatlas scrapes major social media, cleans noise, and scores profiles to surface early adopter identification rather than influencers, using an under-the-radar network analysis plus heuristics and human checks. The platform tracks about 1.6 million concepts, produces one-year quantitative forecasts and case-backed recommendations, and demos a generative feature called Generate that auto-builds trend reports and opportunity lists. The roadmap moves toward orchestrated agent swarms acting as end-to-end strategists.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:57What is psychohistory and its science fiction roots
- 6:32Psychohistory to data science
- 12:14Foresight in business
- 15:50Next Atlas origin
- 20:28Finding early adopters and trends
- 26:50AI-driven trend research
- 31:03Corporate foresight adoption
- 33:12Trend predictions and insights
- 37:26Curious machines in AI
- 43:31Q&A
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