Looking back to a devastating Cholera outbreak in a poor neighborhood of London in 1854, Steven Johnson notes that "it took two entire weeks before the press began treating the outbreak as a major news event for the city." A hundred and sixty years later, we're safer (although more fearful) because news travels faster:
Ebola's Information Paradox, Part II: Do we hear?
Ebola's Information Paradox, Part II: Do we…
Ebola's Information Paradox, Part II: Do we hear?
Looking back to a devastating Cholera outbreak in a poor neighborhood of London in 1854, Steven Johnson notes that "it took two entire weeks before the press began treating the outbreak as a major news event for the city." A hundred and sixty years later, we're safer (although more fearful) because news travels faster: