andrewtait.com has been updated. It now features a responsive design. Responsive websites optimize themselves based on the device they are being displayed on. This allows smartphone users, for example, to consume the content without having to zoom and pan around the site. The following image illustrates how the site looks on an iPhone (apologies for the redundancy if you're actually viewing … [Continue reading...]
“Moving Forward with Complexity” published
October 17, 2011 By
“Moving Forward with Complexity” has now been published. It’s the proceedings of a successful conference that I ran with Kurt Richardson in the summer of 2010. Yes, I know—it takes time.
[Continue reading...]BBC asks whether technology is to blame for the London riots
August 8, 2011 By
The BBC just posted an article asking, “Is technology to blame for the London riots?” No, it is not.
[Continue reading...]“E:CO Complexity & Real-World Applications” published
June 4, 2011 By
The special double issue of “Emergence: Complexity & Organization” that I edited with Kurt Richardson is out now. The theme is “Complexity & Real-World Applications”. It’s the result of a successful conference that we ran, under the same title, in Southampton, England last summer.
[Continue reading...]Prediction is hard—especially when it’s about the future
May 8, 2011 By
It’s always entertaining to read predictions about the future—once the “future” has come to pass. Take “The Internet? Bah!”, published by Newsweek in 1995. Two gems: “Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.” “So how come my local mall does more business in […]
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