A LOST BIRD by John H. Lienhard Click here for audio of Episode 707. Today, a lost bird raises questions about survival. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. I' ve been co-authoring some stuff on the future of information systems. That's a tricky subject.
Information is so close to our jugular vein.
We compete for information. But systems don' t compete, people do. Actually, they cooperate more than they compete. Maybe our pervasive ideas about competition mislead us. Last week my coauthor made that point accidentally.