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On the Future of Science

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Is there future to humanity? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This might be a little tangential - anyways,
    I have always maintained that science should grow only up to the level the mind of the human masses can.
    Once science becomes too powerful, humans tend to use it to our own destruction.
    Please note that I am *not* talking about bombs or so.
    The more powerful science becomes, the more powerful technology becomes.. readily available technology i.e.

    This inturn means lesser money to daily/clerical/buero workers, since the masses only goes for profit.And all 6 billion people in the world cannot be thought workers.

    How will it end?

  2. sh17 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. AI Proofs by Thangodin · · 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

  4. Re:Wikiscience: see this post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    According to my calculations, you are a dork.