Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The Cloud: Why should we care?
"Telling consumers their data is in the cloud is like telling a kid his dog has gone to doggie heaven."
Best Quote from Cloud Control June 20, 2011 Time Magazine Vol. 177 No. 25 Article
What is this cloud thing? Is it another new fangled fad fleeting about in the firmament only to burn out as more people discover it's just a fancy figment of some marketers imagination? AI and TQM come to mind as fads that faded because the promises where greater than reality. But a lot of serious technologist feel it's a concept that is here to stay.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
When Models and Metaphors are Dangerous
I just finished watching the documentary "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" by Adam Curtis. The entire series of three 1 hour shows is a real challenge. I say this because of the way Mr. Curtis makes such seemly tenuous connections between people and the flow of their ideas across modern history. His assertion is that these ideas together have forged our present day perception of reality. False perception is more like it.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
SEs as Creative Leaders
Image from NY Times by Margaret Riegel |
Friday, February 24, 2012
Solving Systems Engineering problems on the Back of a Napkin
Paul Martin's artifact from a Dan Roam seminar, a napkin depicting the "visual thinking codex" |
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Predicting or Creating the Future?
In the Jan-Feb 2012 issue of THE FUTURIST is Thomas Frey's "Eight Grand Challenges for Human Advancement." He proposes several very science fictiony things. All the challenges push past beyond our knowledge of physics. That's a good thing because I don't believe we're even close to understanding how the universe works. But what if they did come to pass? They would have some very far reaching consequences.
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