Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Current Affairs
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Transforming Lives via Public Higher Education
Education at a public research university provides so much more than the opportunity to leap economic barriers.We share our passion for the world of ideas, create new knowledge, transfer insights to a new generation, and unlock waking dreams of the future,
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Research, Politics and Policy
Technical knowledge matters, but communication, empathy,and compromise are equally crucial and sometimes more important.
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Deferred Maintenance on the Future
Over-worked and sleep-deprived researchers are steering many of our vehicles of discovery on balding tires across potholed roads. Put more bluntly, we are struggling to sustain appropriate investments in basic research.
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Dreaming Things That Never Were
You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
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A Conversation on Designing the Future
SF author Bruce Sterling and I recently had a public conversation about the future. I offered some advice to the students in the audience. 1. Hang out with people not like yourself. 2. Take some risks. 3. Make new and original mistakes.
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Understanding the World through Genetics and New Technologies
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) – it is literally the stuff of life. Thus, understanding how DNA regulates biological processes is key to the mechanics of life and to treating disease at its most fundamental levels.