Nicholas A. Christakis Quotes
It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.
Christakis, Nicholas A. "The Structure of Social Networks." What Will Change Everything? Ideas That Will Shape the Future, edited by John Brockman, Harper Perennial, 2010.
At the time there were two demographic changes taking place. In the developed countries there was a very large increase in the percentage of the population over the age of 65. In the less developed nations the proportions of young people was burgeoning.
Wealthy Americans are far healthier and live longer than poor Americans.
He was Governor-General of Korea when he made this statement.
France, which in the 18th and 19th centuries was the center of science and technology for the world, has become more culturally conservative and has developed a maturity towards money and materialism which admires science and innovation but is reluctant to make the sacrifices in living and social style that is often required. Corporate regulations and banking and investment standards made it hard to form a Silicon Valley type organization in France. Many young people had gone to other countries to develop their skills and gain experience, but few return to France while many will start companies, they do it elsewhere.
He was commenting about Saudi Arabia, but oil wealth generally seems to harden nations to reform and change of all types.
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At the beginning of the 21st century there were substantial demographic changes in America which eroded the majority historically held in America by White Christians. A smaller proportion of the American population were identifying with any religion. At the same time that Blacks and Hispanics were a larger proportion of new immigrants than were whites. And those minority groups both had a fertility rate that was substantially grater than that of whites. The result was that in the early 21st century the white Christians were losing their majority status in America.
Nicholas A. Christakis is an American sociologist and physician known for his research on social networks and on the socioeconomic, biosocial, and evolutionary determinants of behavior, health, and longevity. He is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, where he directs the Human Nature Lab. He is also the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science.
