For some, one of the more optimistic scenarios for the future of humanity is what author and inventor Ray Kurzweil has labeled the “singularity”.  Kurzweil looks at the exponential character of some aspects of technology development (Moore’s law, memory . . . → Read More: Singularity is near indeed, but which is it?

Early in my own career, I had the opportunity to work briefly with a helicopter-based flight simulator. This was not a stationary simulator with a simulated visual environment as one might imagine, but rather a real helicopter that had . . . → Read More: Imposing the Constraints of Physical Reality

One of the great challenges that will face humanity over the next 20 years is to find effective means to regulate our use of the global commons (meaning the air and the oceans).  While not part of any nation . . . → Read More: GeoWeb and the regulation of the commons

One of the interesting events of GeoWeb 2009 – Cityscapes was a very entertaining debate on the “ideal” architecture for the GeoWeb.  This was an interesting debate… not simply for the insights provided by the debaters about the relative . . . → Read More: GeoWeb – a Web of Systems