A couple of newspaper items caught my eye this week, both making the point that culture matters-whether we’re talking about scientific creativity, economic competitiveness, the spread (or non-spread) of democracy, or almost anything else.
You’d think this point would be blazingly obvious to everybody, but apparently not. On the left, it regularly gets denounced as being [...]
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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.
