Ruimte en Mobiliteit: 11/1/09

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Talk of the Town - Column Thomas

Dear Ruimte & Mobiliteit adepts,

This is the link (http://www.dezwijger.nl/page/7380/nl) to the 'talk of the town' meeting where I will read out a column about how a trip from Breda to Amsterdam will look like in 2040. The meeting is on november 17th and starts at 18.00 hrs.. It will be in Dutch. If you have any suggestions for my column let me know.

Best wishes,

Thomas

Quotes

"until we try how will we know-ow-ow-ow? How will we know until we try-y-y-y?"(Pennywise, 'Wouldn't It Be Nice', 1991)
"Het mooiste overkomt je, het minste is bedacht" (Freek de Jonge, quoted by Thomas)
"It is always possible to tune models to fit past data: it’s much harder to predict the future" (David Orrell, 2007)
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future" (Niels Bohr, quoted by marco, 2009)
"As soon as we begin to consider structural uncertainty, or uncertainty in parameters for which no prior distribution is available […] tidy formal-ism breaks down" (Allen et al., quoted by Marco, 2009)