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


N.B. This is an old article, written a decade ago, but shared only informally with a few. In today’s uncertain world, it seems appropriate to share it more widely. The news spread through the community as most things do – a whisper here, a brief allusion there. Everyone seemed to know, but nobody dared talk…

A thing of transfixing beauty, the code pirouettes gracefully, dancing in my mind, conjuring the possible.