Quantifying the Advantage of Looking Forward
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- 5 April 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Scientific Reports
- Vol. 2 (1) , 350
- https://doi.org/10.1038/srep00350
Abstract
We introduce a future orientation index to quantify the degree to which Internet users worldwide seek more information about years in the future than years in the past. We analyse Google logs and find a striking correlation between the country's GDP and the predisposition of its inhabitants to look forward.Keywords
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