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Systems Determine Our Behavior

But the legislature is not powerless

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In early 2008, a 32-year-old man followed the instruction of his car’s GPS device and ended up making a right turn onto the railroad tracks, getting his rented Ford Focus wedged between the rails. The man called 911 and waited to wave the train to a stop.

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Klous, S., Wielaard, N. (2016). Systems Determine Our Behavior. In: We are Big Data. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-183-3_10

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