Archives: February 2009
Thu Feb 12, 2009
Is this a simulation?
|n article in Industry Week describes a 'simualtion' in which students learn to improve work-flow efficiency in manufacturing. But I suspect this is not a simulation at all, just an old-fashioned hands-on try-out of techniques. More...
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Sat Feb 07, 2009
Postmodernism, history, and simulation
I recently bought a second-hand book which discusses the impact of post-modernism on history, which it sees as a denial of the validity of past experience, and hence of hope for the future. This started me wondering about the role of simulation in a post-modernist (or post-post-modernist?) age.
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