Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: pandemic
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My Balm in Gilead
COVID-19 has disrupted our lives in so many ways – commerce and trade, personal livelihoods and economic vitality, family and social interactions, health and wellness (obviously), mobility and travel, and education, to name just a few. This global pandemic has also exposed deep social inequities in new ways, convolved with political disarray and often dysfunctional…
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On the Etiology of Heroes
There are heroes out there, individuals whose words and actions manifest deep and abiding principles, rooted in knowledge, experience, and wisdom.
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On Catastrophes and Rebooting the Planet
The lesson of the stochastic cusp catastrophe: disruptions cannot be immediately inverted; complex dynamic systems involve hysteresis.