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The End of Individual Genius?
An anonymous reader writes "A recent study suggests the downfall of individual researchers, who are being rapidly replaced by enormous research groups. Quoting: '... in recent decades — especially since the Soviet success in launching the Sputnik satellite in 1957 — the trend has been to create massive institutions that foster more collaboration and garner big chunks of funding. And it is harder now to achieve scientific greatness. A study of Nobel Prize winners in 2005 found that the accumulation of knowledge over time has forced great minds to toil longer before they can make breakthroughs. The age at which thinkers produce significant innovations increased about six years during the 20th century.'"
If somebody wouldn't have invented the wheel before me then I would have become quite famous, although I'm sure the venture capitalists would have stolen the company from under my feet and probably sold my ideas to the Big Three.
Happens to me too! I'm as smart as, like, Einstein, but everything I can think of, is already invented, or something. I was just born late, I guess.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
None of us are as dumb as all of us.
I'm not so sure about that. We should probably form a committee to figure out if that interesting quote is true or not. Either way, we'll end up being right.
If you start using buildings that are designed by computers, they will really be designed by programmers.
Which is terrifying.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Ha, I can still draw a schematic without my computer, but when I'm not around my computer just sits there and does nothing.
So who's the fucking daddy?? *gives computer a bitchslap* WHO'S THE FUCKING DADDY??
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
They don't allow talking in the library, 'tis why.
Their parents basement, replaced by the computer lab at MIT, replaced by the cubical on the end of the row, replaced by the WOW server, replaced by slashdot.
Yeah, I can see why the smart people aren't "meeting" so much.
Also, since when have humans practiced any kind of selection in breeding? What a farce.
Not all papers have the names in alphabetical order. e.g. The RSA paper didn't have Aldeman first. I'm glad it did. RSA sounds better than ARS.
ugh...
When the education system institutionalizes you for 30 years and tells you what the world looks like, how the hell are you supposed to actually see it when you're finally released?
You take a lot of LSD and other psychedelic drugs. Well, at least it worked for me...