On the Future of Science

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday March 19, 2006 @07:51AM from the in-the-not-too-distant-future dept.

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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AI Proofs by Thangodin · 2006-03-19 10:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The real breakthrough will come when we have an AI capable of parsing and analyzing political and advertising material for validity. Then we will end up with something like this for most of them:

[Premise] (false)
[Premise] (false)
[Fallacious argument] (bad premises)
[Fallacious argument] (ad hominem)
[Fallacious argument] (ad hominem)
[Fallacious argument] (sweeping generalization)
[Fallacious argument] (circular argument)
[Fallacious argument] (strawman)
[Fallacious argument] (ad populum)
[Fallacious argument] (appeal to authority)
[Fallacious argument] (anecdotal evidence)

Truth content: none