As I promised last week, I wanted to talk a bit about my chapter in the new book Blindside, edited by Francis Fukuyama. Because the book (like the conference it was based on) focuses on prediction and forecasting, I framed the chapter as a discussion of the near-impossibility of trying to forecast technological outcomes-even in [...]
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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...
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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.
