Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: future shock
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Pinball, War Games, and Universities
One way to drive the flippers and anticipate how the silver pinball of university futures may bounce and move is via war games
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Disruptive Innovation: Changing Lives
In a world of exponential technological change, with its concomitant social and economic disruptions, it is all too easy for the intelligentsia and technorati to pontificate glibly on macroeconomic trends, demographic shifts and global talent flows while speaking sotto voce, if at all, about the human cost of technological future shock. I confess that I…
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Social Leadership: Empty Seats at the Table
In the Information Age, computing researchers are well placed to be bilingual, translating computing technology trends and capabilities into the language understood by policy makers and other influentials, and, in turn, relating policy desires to other researchers. However, I am repeatedly struck by the relatively small number of computing researchers who are engaged in the…