Monthly Archives: May 2012

I subscribe to a wonderful newsletter about design, produced by a wise and creative fellow named John McWade (publishes a newsletter called Before and After) – he passed along this tidbit – that frames a basic problem in our education prospects going forward, in every profession.  Here’s the excerpted story: “{After a conference …} AtContinueContinue reading “Education: Picnic basket or scavenger hunt?”

Another interesting perspective on trend analysis in history.  Yes it’s a TED talk, by Jean-Baptiste Michel, taped at the TED conference this February: The mathematics of history. Not that this topic hasn’t been addressed in the past, but with the advent of BigData, and other powerful new computing models and paradigms, the analysis of theContinueContinue reading “The Mathematics of History”

Found out about it too late – but what fun it would have been to attend: The Future That Never Was. One of the speakers, Matt Novak, wrote a piece describing the background of the concept and the event.  It is fun – though sometimes melancholy – to go back and score our success atContinueContinue reading “The Future That Might Have Been”