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Wow, I've never read that. Here's my favorite section: 'Since from the time of Newton to now, we have come close to doubling knowledge every 17 years, more or
by g00dn3ss 19y ago
Wow, I've never read that. Here's my favorite section:
'Since from the time of Newton to now, we have come close to doubling knowledge every 17 years, more or less. And we cope with that, essentially, by specialization. In the next 340 years at that rate, there will be 20 doublings, i.e. a million, and there will be a million fields of specialty for every one field now. It isn't going to happen. The present growth of knowledge will choke itself off until we get different tools.'
- Neoryder 19y agodo we have the right tools yet? if not can why don't we try to think of what would help us with this massive and rapid doubling of knowledge.
- rms 19y agoThe internet has been a pretty good tool to take us this far.
- yters 19y agoIt would be cool if scientist could record their research in a machine understandable format. Then people could either state their assumptions or conclusions and the computer would provide the other side, or state what information is missing.
- rms 19y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem
- yters 19y agoOh, I know that scientist currently use computers to prove things. I mean as a general method of organizing and correlating knowledge that anyone could use. I've seen a similar project, an ontological Wikipedia, but it's probably too tedious for the general practitioner.