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


In a scene worthy of The Matrix, I felt time slow to a fractal crawl. In the Planck time separating what was and what could be, I considered the Hamiltonian and its myriad possibilities.

Over the years, I have learned that being bilingual in matters of science and technology and in matters of strategy and policy is far rarer than I might have first hypothesized. How do we cross the intellectual divide, providing technical advice to policy experts in ways that they find useful and actionable?