Myriads of Tiny Architects

Science, society and innovation

Michael West

I'm interested in how science and technology can be used to confront the immense social and environmental challenges facing modern society.

For more about me, see my website.

The title is taken from Charles Darwin's The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, in which he describes how the complex reef is the sum of many tiny individual actions. I like Stephen Johnson's insight that this is an equally good description of innovative societies.

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October 3, 2011

Lobbying pays off.

From The Economist.

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