Fun with genealogy

I haven’t published anything recently, but it’s about time. here’s an intriguing sidelight. It’s also been published on my…

REPRISE: Diffusion, Technology Transfer, and Implementation: Thinking and Talking About Change

NOTE: This article is a sort of “blast from the past”. It was originally published in Knowledge: Creation…

Real conspiracies

There is obviously a great deal of interest in the subject of conspiracies these days, and many different ideas floating around…

Politico-technical systems

The language of socio-technical systems and socio-technical design has proved over the years to be one of the…

A new religion — The Church of Posterity

For a large part of human history, a major component of religion has been the worship of…

We are in national trouble

Do we have any idea where we are going as a country? The sober fact is that the Congress is within hours of…

Further thoughts on replication and continuity in science