Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Popular culture
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Star Trek@50: Inspiring Discovery and Innovation
Our longing for a better world is why Star Trek has lived long and prospered.
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Commencement Speeches and Hydration
A commencement ceremony is neither the time nor the place to risk heat stroke and dehydration with an extended pageant in a basketball arena-cum-auditorium or sun-drenched football stadium.
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Mapping Terra Incognita: An Iowa Perspective
Research, scholarship and creative expression — they define us as humans and as scholars.
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What I’m Reading: ‘Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future’
When did our utopian dreams stagger into an alleyway, drunk on hubris, only to be mugged by our diminished expectations?
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Through A Google Glass, Darkly
I have been wearing Google Glass intermittently as both a technical assessment of utility and as a social study in human dynamics and expectations.
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Celestial Mechanics: Why I Know Summer Will Come
Though the long past, languid days of northern latitude summer now seem like a waking dream, I have faith – grounded in science – that summer will come again.