Dick Van Atta has invited me to give a guest lecture this evening to his graduate seminar on Emerging Technologies and Security at Georgetown University. The presentation, Next Generation Infotech, is basically a meditation on the nature of innovation, using examples from the history and future of computing. Since these are two topics I’ve been [...]
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Mitch Waldrop
I am a physicist turned journalist, interested in just about everything related to science and technology - and a good deal more besides. "Starclouds" is where I explore it all...
My Books
The Dream Machine (2001):
A narrative history of personal computing and the Internet.
Complexity (1992):The story of the Santa Fe Institute and the emerging science of complex adaptive systems.
Man-Made Minds (1987):My first book—a study of artificial intelligence.
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