The AS/400 at 19: Predicting the Future–Or Not
June 21, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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As a young student of math and engineering a few decades ago, I was drawn to these topics because they offered what seemed to my eyes a calculable and assuring degree of certainty in the answers they provided. I didn’t think about it at the time all that much, but math was particularly fulfilling because it had answers, and given a set of data and conditions, you could predict future sets of data and their conditions. In that idealized world, you can predict the future. Of course, the more I studied complex systems–either physics or aerodynamics–the more I got |
