Like most issues of Visions , putting together this edition turne d out to be something of an exploration. Discussions about the future of government with some of the brightest minds around inevitably result in many surprises.
Conversations take unexpected turns.
The focus of an article or interview can shift dramatically. This magazine is a publication rooted in technology. But today, the distinction between science, the search for knowledge and technology, and the application of knowledge, has become blurred. The cultural lag between discovery and application of the discovery has become so short that one almost dissolves seamlessly into the other. And so, as a technological society, we are essentially creatures of science.