smitty777 writes:
There is an interesting article on Kevin Kelly's vision of the future. Among some of his predictions:
- There will be more changes in the next 50 years than in the last 400.
- This will be the century of biology
- Computers will keep leading to new ways of science
- New ways of knowing will emerge
- Science will create new levels of meaning
But the second half of the article (Speculations On The Future of Science) goes into the details: the multiple hypothesis matrix, zilionics, deep simulations, and hyper-analysis mapping are among some of the more interesting predictions. One of the more interesting quotes FTA: "Technology is, in its essence, new ways of thinking. The most powerful type of technology, sometimes called enabling technology, is a thought incarnate which enables new knowledge to find and develop news ways to know. This kind of recursive bootstrapping is how science evolves. As in every type of knowledge, it accrues layers of self-reference to its former state."
Sadly, I was led to this article after reading this piece on the future of the US Space Program.