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Could Isaac Newton Get a Faculty Job?
An anonymous reader writes "Could Isaac Newton get a faculty job, or is modern society too intolerant of eccentricity? That's one of the questions that Glenn Reynolds asks Neal Stephenson in this interview over at TechCentralstation. Others involve the changing nature of fame in an age of fragmented media, the role of the Seventeenth Century in shaping the modern world, and what it's like to write a book with a fountain pen, in the twenty-first century."
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Ah-nold is the next gov. of California.
Thanks, bozo-nuts. When your state completely colapses all the jobs will go to the sane states.
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sir issac lime could!!! I never got that otterpop... it was odviously a pun on sir issac newton, but it didn't make as much sense as the others (which is scary!). it had to be that it was originally green apple and they had it already printed up or something.
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This the current "publish or perish" environment all those papers establishing the fields of Physics and Calculus may not be enough...
Actually, this is a very good question. Not because of "excessive quirkyness" because many of the great professors I have met are "querky or weird". But I wonder if Newton would have been able to handle Relativism and Quantum Physics. Many physicists of Einstein's time couldn't handle Relativism and Einstein himself had a problem with Quantum Physics. If Newton lived to 1000 years old I wonder if he could have handled the shifts.
Brian
Another fine article from TechCentralStation on the state of open source and why it will never work...
http://www.techcentralstation.com/100603C.html
Yeah, right. If Neal Stephenson wasn't enough to slashdot their server, maybe this will be...
Art Bell has confirmed these numbers, but reports that Gray Davis has invoked the Posse Comitas act to order the national guard to sieze the ballot boxes. It looks like he won't be vacating Sacramento without a fight.
The article raises the question of why the 17th Century ideas are becoming popular. I think part of it is related to 9/11 and the othodoxy of some muslim's and their desire to transform our secular society into a religious one. (Along with other othodoxy believers from other faiths.) In some sense we need to convince "them" (those who want to live in a religous rather than secular state) in similar ways to what happened in the 17th Century in Europe.
Seperation of Church and State, etc, etc.
We talk about various technologies and their advocates as having religion for that technology but you don't *usually* get killed over which OS you buy or what type of data structure you code.
We need to really understand how in the past they "debugged" society into it's less then perfect but never-the-less better (and current) form.
It is worth saying, we may not ever convince them of that and we might find our self's living in a society where dancing is immoral and a man talking to an other man's wife ruins his honor.
The state of California will be terminated!
The first order of business: bring me Sarah Connor.
Not with that haircut! hohoho
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The pr0n industry might hire him. I heard they are looking for some zombies, for a film they are working on called, Debbie does dead dudes 4.