World of Warcraft’s ‘virtual plague’ sheds light on flu pandemic (Ottawa Citizen)
Posted on May 1st, 2009 by World of Warcraft News
Experts studying epidemics such as the swine flu have long been stymied by computer models that lacked one critical variable: free will. Subjects in a computer model only do what the program tells them to do, not what they necessarily want to do.
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