Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 2nd, 2009
Words and virus particles are both infectious units of information that depend on human vehicles for transport. Their flows are often correlated too, since a quarantine on words can cause an outbreak of virus. The Spanish flu flared so spectacularly in part because no one was willing to talk about it; wartime censorship locked down [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 1st, 2008
When I first moved to Massachusetts from California, I learned about the value of the private snowplow contract. When it snows hard, it’s really nice to have a pro come plow your driveway, even if it does set you back a little cash. But one winter when there wasn’t much snow, our (presumably cash-poor) plow [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 21st, 2008
Here’s another one of those semantic distance stories: how long does it take to formulate the right question when you just know the answer is out there somewhere? One of the various obscure records* in my house when I was growing up was Songs & Sounds of the Sea. It was a collection of sea [...]
