Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Science Policy
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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.
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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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U.S. House of Representatives Hearing on High-Performance Computing
High-performance computing (HPC) is unique among scientific instruments, distinguished by its universality as an intellectual amplifier.
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Simplifying Communication
How often have you picked up a scholarly journal from another discipline, only to be stymied and mystified by the disciplinary jargon? It is time to lower the disciplinary drawbridges and invite readers into our intellectual castles.