Zepo: An allegory of silence

An Allegory of the Hill

I n his farewell address to the nation, President Eisenhower told Americans that the military–industrial complex offered enormous potential for abuse if not properly constrained. The problem has become much larger than he imagined. We now have a selfsustaining and self-regulating national militaryindustrial-surveillance-politicalmedia-prison-energy-academicreligious-medical-legal-think-tank com...

Multi-objective Optimisation for Social Cost Benefit Analysis: An Allegory

On the Predictability of Coupled Automata: An Allegory about Chaos

We show a sharp dichotomy between systems of identical automata with a symmetric global control whose behavior is easy to predict, and those whose behavior is hard to predict. The division pertains to whether the global control rule is invariant with respect to permutations of the states of the automaton. On the other hand, we show that testing whether the global control rule has this invarianc...

The Future of Shopping: An Eerie Silence?

Imagine walking into a store, selecting the items you want, and then walking out—no cashiers, no lines, no crowds. Could this be the future of retail and grocery stores? Because such a frictionless shopping experience is what digital economy companies are designing as they move into traditional economy areas such as shopping. Of the top 10 most valuable companies in the world, 6 are data driven...

A small hospital's fairy sad tale: an allegory.

© 2006 Society of Rural Physicians of Canada Can J Rural Med 2006; 11 (4) O nce upon a time there was a little farming village in the valley, not far from a castle on the hill. The people in the village liked to help each other. The local healers were considered a part of their village “family.” One day, as medical knowledge and technology developed, they all decided that they could best help t...