Tuesday 29 January 2008

The city needs to go green?

No, not green as in environmental (although that would be a good idea too); green as in look to developments in defence for where it might go next.

Parts of the city seem to be buying Bayesian statisticians as if they were going out of fashion (they're not: from what I'm hearing on the tech grapevines, belief is apparently the new black for this season). Which makes sense in a world where predictions are shifting from 'did we see something like this before and what happened' to 'we haven't got a clue what's happening next and the best we can do is guess from fragments'. I spent a day moving on a bit from that, playing with situation awareness techniques, and wondered if that was where the city might go next. Only time will tell...