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Category Archives: Notes in process
Simulating technological development: sneak peek!
As previously stated, we’re seeking to simulate the development, adoption, and modification – in short, the evolution – of technologies. Here’s a sneak peek of the sort of shiny output our computing clusters will soon be churning out. Hopefully :). … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Notes in process, Simulations
Tagged ADDER, evolution of technology, Innovation, Research, Simulations
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Would E.Ts try to kill us off? (Nope. They’d be deterred.)
There has been some debate in the sciencey & science fictionish circles about whether searching for and contacting extra-terrestrial aliens is really such a great idea. No less a luminary than Stephen Hawking recently warned the humanity about the possible dangers … Continue reading
Posted in Notes in process, SETI, Aliens & Space
Tagged Deterrence, Research, SciFi, SETI, Space travel
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Innovations and evolution of technology, note I: Schumpeter and Usher on innovations
Some notes about what previous thinkers have said about innovations and the evolution of technology. We’ll begin by notes I made from Ruttan’s classic 1959 article, “Usher and Schumpeter on invention, innovation, and technological change.” As the title says, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Notes in process
Tagged Innovations, notes, Ruttan, Schumpeter, Technology evolution, Theory of Invention, Usher
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Crises are “come as you are” events, not springboards, simulations say
My PhD research topic deals with resource constraints and, by implication, resource shocks such as the oil crisis of 1973 – and the current slow-mo energy crisis. What I’m trying to do is to sort out whether sudden constraints, such … Continue reading
Posted in Notes in process, Scarcities and constraints, Simulations
Tagged Constraints, Innovation, Research, Simulations
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Theories of design – is design problem-solving?
The field of design theory is separated to two warring camps. On the one side are people following Donald Schön’s (1983) “Reflective Practitioner;” an epistemology of practice based on a close examination of what different practicioners actually do. On the … Continue reading
Posted in Notes in process
Tagged Algorithms, Design, Design Theory, Donald Schön, Herbert Simon, notes, Sciences of the Artificial
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(Descriptive) theories of change
Van de Ven and Poole (1995) group the main theories of change to four groups: Life cycle Teleology Dialectics Evolution The most interesting of these is #4, evolution. Viewed correctly, it actually encompasses all the others. Other ways of describing … Continue reading
Explaining the evolution of technologies, firms, and industries: some notes on my PhD thesis methodology
Here’s the presentation I gave at our faculty’s research seminar in late October 2010. I’m interested in using Complexity Theories and Information Theory to analyze the evolution of technology as a result of resource constraints. This presentation looks into my … Continue reading
The unpublished notebooks of J. M. Korhonen 
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