Missing Maps and the Fragility of Digital Information
A couple of months ago, I had a remarkable demonstration of the fragility of the "always on" connected mindset.
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UAV Sniffing, Wicked Problems, Online Classes, and Whisky Science
by Nat Torkington | @gnat | 2 August 2011
- DIY UAVs for Cyber-Warface -- aerial drone that poses as celltower, sniffs wifi, cracks passwords, and looks badass. The photo should be captioned "IM IN UR SKIES, SNIFFIN UR GMAIL SESSION COOKIEZ." (via Bryan O'Sullivan)
- Wicked Problems (Karl Schroeder) -- a category of problem which, once you read the definition, you recognize everywhere. 5. Every solution to a wicked problem is a "one-shot operation"; because there is no opportunity to learn by trial and error, every attempt counts significantly. I like Karl's take: our biggest challenges are no longer technological. They are issues of communication, coordination, and cooperation. These are, for the most part, well-studied problems that are not wicked. The methodologies that solve them need to be scaled up from the small-group settings where they currently work well, and injected into the DNA of our society--or, at least, built into our default modes of using the internet. They then can be used to tackle the wicked problems.
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- Sensory and Chemical Analysis of "Shackleton’s" Mackinlay Scotch Whisky (PDF) -- Three cases of Mackinlay’s Rare Highland Malt whisky were excavated from the ice under Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1907 expedition base camp hut at Cape Royds in Antarctica in January 2010. The majority of the bottles were in a pristine state of preservation and three were returned to Scotland in January 2011 for the first sensory and organoleptic analysis of a Scotch malt whisky distilled in the late 1890s. I love science where figures have captions like: Principal component analysis (PCA) of peat derived congeners in peated whisky and new-make spirit. I hope the finders got to drink at least some of it, but sentences like this make it seem improbable: The three whisky bottles, minus the whisky sampled via the syringe for this work, will be returned to New Zealand and the Antarctic Heritage Trust will subsequently return the artefacts to Antarctica and place them back under the floor of Shackleton’s hut for posterity. (via Chris Heathcote)
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