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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."
More like the last century of biology!
I spend most of my time in bed, darling.
Remember folks, an educated public is BAD for any government trying to maintain control. Those pesky "educated" folks have a tendency to gum up the works. They're BAD for the country, and thus must be stopped.
The best way to d this if course is to ensure that Only the wealthy can get decent educations. That way anyone who doesn't fit the mold can simply find their business opportunities dry up. The, and their degenerate ideas, will be dead and gone withing a generation!
Isn't it brilliant?
Besides, a lead in science and technology is overrated. Remember, the US is trying to DESTROY the middle class in order to create a cheap labor pool in order to compete with China.
And don't worry. China's camps of political dissident slave labor will be equaled in the US. There's just the issue of deciding who, aside from the Muslims, to lock up in the forced labor camper.
Long live President Bush!
Death to the 22nd Amendment!
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
wikis are a disaster
truth is subsumed under overlayed falsehood; politics determines content; honest contribution is discouraged
there is a better way