Technology and ethics: in search of a vision
An attempt to discern through the research where we need to head in a technology-dominated future and what role does ethics have in guiding this future?
Hypothesis on why some nations should not have WMD
Many of today’s powerful nations have been through enough strife to know the pain conflict inflicts upon their own people, let alone the enemy. Yet, this does not stop them from waging war. But with WMD technologies no longer the domain of rich nations, what does this mean for future war?
Education's role in creating geography
Here, I'm contesting that education is responsible for the creation of the human geography we encounter and interact with daily from a critical viewpoint. Join this with the political motivation for requiring education of a nation's citizens and we start to think...what really is the outcome and is it desirable?
Unity and Diversity in the Third World
A possibly idealistic attempt to understand the challenges of creating economic prosperity in the third world (now that term seems a bit off now!) focusing on the East African littoral countries. The argument follows the thought that Western-style development was not an appropriate model. However, since writing this in 1997 (but stemming from an interest in the region that went back to 1995) it is notable that not a great deal of progress has happened. Indeed, old cycles seem to re-emerge and some countries civil societies have caved in despite a more enlightened ‘Western’ development model.
Saudi Stability: Origins, Factors and Impact
Coming soon... A reasonable attempt to discern from the literature the factors at play in the future stability of Saudi Arabia. Written in 1997, but given the intervening decade I wonder how much of it rings true today?
Warp formula?
For some obscure reason, we made this on an old Sun system, using heaps of computing power. It looked cool (at the time), using warp formula z=n-re or something. Go to hyperdrive, warp or whatever!