Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 3rd, 2005
This is known: writing is magic. I scratch marks on paper, and you know my mind. Magic. The next question is, is some writing more magical than others? Can some written languages enter your brain more naturally than others? Of living languages, Japanese and Chinese seem to sway our Western imagination as links to a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 1st, 2005
Years ago I sometimes dreamed of organizing all the kids in town to run their hoses onto the streets on some frigid winter night. It seemed so logical. You don’t need snow to close school down as long as everybody works together. It’s collective action for the common good: school buses can’t move on sheer [...]
