A while back I wrote a post on the death of the computer chain store, and I speculated a bit on where the PC was going:
The PC business is definitely going through a transition. Somehow I think the future of the PC is your mobile phone…or maybe your TV. It will practically disappear. In some ways [...]
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The future of PCs
Posted in Information Technology, computer science, tagged PCs on November 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The challenge of trying to get a real science of computing in our schools
Posted in Analysis, Education, computer science, tagged computer science, Education, south park on November 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Once again, I return to the technique of using a metaphor created by a recent South Park episode (Season 13, Episode 10) to illustrate the way things are (in an entirely different subject). Warning: There is adult, offensive language in the video clips I use below. My usual admonition applies. If you are easily offended, [...]
The death of certainty and the birth of computer science
Posted in History, Math & Science, computer science, tagged Alan Turing, computer science, Georg Cantor, Kurt Godel, mathematics on August 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I came upon this video recently titled “Dangerous Knowledge”, produced by the BBC. It profiles the life and times of three mathematicians (Georg Cantor, Kurt Gödel, and Alan Turing) and one scientist (Ludwig Boltzmann). For some reason it drew me in.
The show makes allusions to an atheism which I find difficult to relate to this [...]
