Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: Scientific American
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A {Racing} Bicycle for the Mind: Helmet Recommended
If the personal computer is a bicycle for the mind, then a supercomputer is a carbon fiber composite racing bicycle.
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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.
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The Utility of Uselessness: Freeing Minds
Abraham Flexner: A poem, a symphony, a painting, a mathematical truth, a new scientific fact, all bear in themselves all the justification that universities, colleges, and institutes of research need or require.