Education and Healthcare, or, Disrupting the Disruptable
I have long believed there to be more in common between the states of K-12 education and healthcare in the US than might commonly be thought. (Bear with me here, as I’ll bring this back to the...
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Simulation Strata
These days, when I think about simulation, I tend to find myself thinking about interconnected simulations. I do think about individual simulations, but more and more it seems like I want to find a way...
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Guest Post: Dr. Rick Satava on Simulation-Based Science
[I recently wrote here on the question of the future of science and the scientific method and how they would be influenced by simulation. In that entry, I referred to Dr. Rick Satava, Professor...
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Are We Living in a Simulation?
When it comes to simulations, the focus of our work here is on how to apply them to real-world problems. On this blog, we write about the future of simulation, and we speculate as to whether human...
View ArticleBoosman’s Law of Accelerating Usage
This is from my keynote address at MODSIM World Canada, delivered in June of 2010: So what do soft drinks and exponential technology growth have to do with one another? From John Sculley we know that...
View ArticleSimulation and the True Story Behind Apollo 13
If you’ve seen the film Apollo 13—and if you haven’t, you should—you know the story of how the astronauts worked together with NASA personnel to devise a method of keeping their spacecraft alive to get...
View ArticleA Moon Shot for Simulation Learning
In 2004, while I was serving as Chief Operating Officer for 3Dsolve (later acquired by Lockheed Martin), I wrote an article for Training and Simulation Journal called “A Moon Shot for e-Learning”....
View ArticleBreaking Out of a Simulation
In an earlier post on the question of whether we’re living in a simulation, I wrote this: It could… be argued that if we’re living inside a simulation, and if we were to discover evidence of this fact,...
View ArticleSimulation versus Emulation
The terms “simulation” and “emulation” are often used incorrectly, and I’d like to do my part to set the record straight, because the distinction is an important one. Simulation is, in the words of the...
View ArticleHuman Beings Are Simulation Engines
In his 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop, author Douglas Hofstadter–best known for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid–discusses his reaction to the...
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