On the Future of Science

bj8rn writes "Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, speculates about the future of science based on a talk he have gave a few weeks ago. Kelly sees recursion as the essence of science and chronicles the introduction of different recursive devices in science; projecting forward from this, he makes several interesting predictions about what the near future may hold in store. Some highlights: there will be more change in the next 50 years of science than in the last 400 years; the new century will be the century of Biology; new ways of knowing will emerge, with 'Wikiscience' leading to perpetually refined papers with thousands of authors."

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Wikiscience: see this post

[bj8rn]

rv vandalism

[Anonymous Coward]

Science is the practice of using long words to make things that explode, and is the number three cause of deaths in Americans under 45. Science is performed by Scientists, a cannabalistic but peaceful race who resemble rats more than humans and live deep before the earth. By far the most important scientist today is Pope John Ratzinger, inventor of DNA. Without science, life would not be possible and we would all have to live in big piles of stacked rocks, because we wouldn't be able to invent nails or hammers or wood.

Resources

        * "The Vatican Website". Biography of Pope John Ratzinger.
        * "U.S. Department of Defense". The inventors of science, and giant laser enthusiasts.
        * "NEWTON BBS Ask A Scientist". This site is crap. I don't know why we're linking it but everyone on the talk page is a huge fanboy for it so there you go.
        * "Herbal viagra". Herbal viagra cheap grow a bigger today.

This is TOTALLY wrong...

[zappepcs]

This is TOTALLY wrong, I 'thought' of wikiscience last year... patent pending... nuff said :)

Re:Is there future to humanity?

[Anonymous Coward]

"And all 6 billion people in the world cannot be thought workers."

Why not?

Because a large percentage of them are stupid. Take you, for example.

Re: Change will occur much more rapidly than that

[Black Parrot]

> If you see Moorse's law as applied to electronics

Moorse's law: the number of people who know Moorse code is halving every decade.

Re:Wikiscience

[lennier]

Can you imagine a natural selection paper written by the masses?

Because of course something as irreducibly complex as Darwinian theory could never arise from the competitive random chance interactions of a normally-distributed population.