passages of power
On Wednesday I interviewed a professor at the University of Cape Town. Prof Mike Inggs celebrates his 21st year in the Engineering faculty this year, and he has been studying various aspects of radar technology for most of that time. He told me many things that were really interesting, but he may be surprised that the one comment that really stuck in my mind was when he that he didn't know if the study of radar would continue after he was gone. (The picture of radar here is pretty misleading in this context, but it is pretty. And nothing says radar more than a green screen. With blips. The kind of radar that Prof Inggs and his team works with does far more. More about that another time.) "Often when a professor retires, that's the end of it," he said. "New people come in with new interests and ideas, and knowledge is lost." Guest writer Skoorby has written today's post, and he has some really interesting things to say about transitions and how they can h...