On the Future of Science 275
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."
Wikiscience: see this post (Score:5, Funny)
rv vandalism (Score:0, Funny)
Resources
* "The Vatican Website" [vatican.com]. Biography of Pope John Ratzinger.
* "U.S. Department of Defense" [whitehouse.gov]. The inventors of science, and giant laser enthusiasts.
* "NEWTON BBS Ask A Scientist" [cam.ac.uk]. 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" [vatican.com]. Herbal viagra cheap grow a bigger today.
This is TOTALLY wrong... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Is there future to humanity? (Score:1, Funny)
Why not?
Because a large percentage of them are stupid. Take you, for example.
Re: Change will occur much more rapidly than that (Score:5, Funny)
Moorse's law: the number of people who know Moorse code is halving every decade.
Re:Wikiscience (Score:5, Funny)
Because of course something as irreducibly complex as Darwinian theory could never arise from the competitive random chance interactions of a normally-distributed population.