[Rhodes22-list] Chaos

[Ronald Lipton]

As long as you are thanking DARPA, you should also thank Particle 
Physicists
and CERN, which invented and promulgated the HTTP protocols and web 
standards.

I have been working on projects related to some DARPA-funded initiatives 
and have been
impressed by how focussed and effective much of the DARPA-funded work 
is.  It
is very different then the usual peer review system for funding grants.  
The government
funded work is also one of the only things keeping at least some high 
tech industry
onshore.

Ron


Bill Effros wrote:
> Brad,
>
> It is really remarkable that we can have an open conversation like this 
> all over the world virtually simultaneously at no cost.
>
> (Thank you big government and DARPA -- some of this shit works!)
>
> Have you read Chaos by James Gleick?  I am totally absorbed by it, and 
> it is changing my life (as my best friend who has been trying to get me 
> to read it for the past 20 years told me it would.)
>
> The name is good for selling books, but bad for describing the concept.
>
> It is all I've been thinking about lately--the election is just a side-show.
>
> Bill
>
>
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