The Urban Institute recently released the report by Lindsay Lowell and Hal Salzman that I mentioned in my post on challenges to conventional wisdom on innovation—the one claiming that all the “gathering storm” concern about a declining U.S. science and engineering workforce is way overblown. Their title, appropriately enough, is “Into the Eye of the [...]
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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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