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M AR C H 2 0 1 1 | VO L . 5 4 | N O. 3 The practice is to become an observer and facilitator of those conversations. There are three basic kinds of conversations. ˲˲ Context. Define the purpose, meaning, and value of actions. ˲˲ Possibility. Invent possibilities for future action (in the context). ˲˲ Action. Elicit the commitments that will realize specific possibilities and see them through to completion. It would be a misunderstanding of Allen’s model (practice 1) to interpret his “actionable” items only in the third sense.

Stokes further argues that “Pasteur’s Quadrant,” namely use-inspired basic research, is increasingly prevalent in modern research institutes. The argument of Stokes strongly resonates with schools of engineering, or computer science. ” Any engineering department in a modern research university is a science and engineering department. This is often indicated by the department’s name: Material Science and Engineering, Nuclear Science and Engineering, or even Engineering Science (at Oxford University).

Pr ed i c t t hat These merely perplexing events become ever more ominous as thousands of people, then millions, realize they are always being watched, they have no privacy, and their every decision is controlled by some unseen force. Foursevenths of moderate Americans who are likely to vote begin to slide from the middle to the extreme right or left, not knowing why. It gets worse and worse. It seems like Armageddon. Just as the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers encapsulated the Red Scare zeitgeist with its depiction of ordinary people being replaced by exact replicas who are actually aliens bent on taking over the world—as many feared that Communist spies and sym- pathizers were taking over America— The Invasion of the Info Snatchers will play on our high-tech anxiety as our online lifestyles, position-broadcasting cellphones, and protective monitoring devices are inexorably compromised, exploited, and joined by ever more subtle devices.