Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: autonomous vehicles
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Reluctant Revolutionaries, the Trolley Paradox, and Ender’s Game
Suddenly we were playing Ender’s Game, making software decisions that controlled life and death.
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Technical Potpourri
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: big data, extreme computing, energy efficiency, and autonomous vehicles.
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Informatics, Sugar Water and Revolution
If the Anthropocene defines human impact on the Earth’s ecosystems, then the Information Age defines computing’s impact on our own interactions.
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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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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.