Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience


Remember, the best way to predict the future is to create it.

Establishing actual facts (a neologism, for sure) is the essential prerequisite for fact-based reasoning.

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.