Bill's Notebook

Along the same lines of my own research – simulation of cultural change.  Computational social science is going to revolutionize the social sciences as simulation revolutionized the hard sciences.

Great interactive demonstration of the Space Communication Network.  Good example of creative of citizen engagement.

When I watch the GOP’s use of junk science such as the recent attempt to demonstrate that the snowstorm in DC disproves global warming, my belief that the GOP’s first action after the 1994 Congressional victories in killing the Office of Technology Assessment was to insure that the rest of their agenda would have more success in passing.  It is well-documented that much of the GOP’s agenda rests upon the significant number of voters who are scientifically-illiterate.