Where Big Stuff Doesn’t Get Done: Neal Stephenson on Innovation Starvation
This World Policy Institute piece by Neil Stephenson runs a whole gamut of themes that collectively address the mystery of why we have gone, in a little over two generations, from a society whose engineers and tycoons seemed able to…
The Toilet Test
The picture above is a Japanese shinkansen, ‘bullet train’, exhibited at the National Railway Museum in York. This model in fact is obsolete. Arrangements to exhibit it there were originally made by Rod Smith, now Chief Science Advisor to the…