The Next Fifty Years of Science

Google TechTalks
May 9, 2006

Kevin Kelly

ABSTRACT
The scientific method which provides us with so many technological goodies does not resemble the science of 1600. Ever since Bacon, science has undergone a slow evolution.

Landmarks in the history of the scientific method are the invention of libraries, indexes, citations, controlled experiments, peer review, placebos, double blind experiments, randomization, and search among others. At the core of the scientific method is the structuring of information.

In the next 50 years, as the technologies of information and knowledge accelerate, the nature of the scientific process will change even more than it has in the last 400 years. We can't...

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[eternal000sunshine]

amazing lecture but last minute of this talk was mind blowing!!!

[2knowis2grow]

Gets good@ ~37 & profound at ~45! Give it chance! Meditate & wonder how your consciousness will grow with technology -driven by science! You of course will be the same person but only your will, divinely given, will determine whether (1) you are simply a larger version of yourself, more aware & hopefully more connected to humans than the toys of technology, or (2) you will be a larger uniformed couch potato watching Family Guy reruns! YOU must decide to wake yourself. Don't disappoint yourself!

[TheCHRM2]

third

[GravityWing]

indeed it is a sad world...

[studio7manga]

This has been up for over a year and I'm the first to comment on this? What a sad world...