The “Independence Generation”, born after the collapse of USSR [less than 30 years old], led eight days of peaceful protest. …
Essentials, Foundational The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn, 1962. A conceptual framework for understanding how paradigm shifts in…
China remembers its former greatness. Magnificent civil engineering projects: the Dujiangyan Water Project still functioning after 2400 years; the Great…
A good overview of the state of the self-driving art is here. Google’s Waymo will have a fleet of driverless…
To my family, friends and communities, I offer all the love, support, information, stimulation and engagement I can. Every day,…
“We’ll still need people, but robots . . . .” from a New York Times article about robots in the…
Incredibly disruptive AS it comes. University of Manchester is where I’m starting my research. From Manchester’s Graphene site: “The world’s…
The geopolitical landscape through a potentially useful lens: three competing powers, three areas of conflict and three fields of endeavour. …
The Chinese banking system has long been afflicted by massive lending to State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), organizations whose purposes did…
“Reality is one of the few words that means nothing without quotation marks.” – Vladimir Nabokov. To which, I might…