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Is Science Mostly Driven by Ideas or by Tools?

From www.sciencemag.org - December 14, 2012 3:30 PM
We are standing now as we stood in the 1950s, between a Kuhnian dream of sudden illumination and a Galisonian reality of laborious exploring. On one side are string theory and speculations about multiverses; on the other are all-sky surveys and observations of real black holes. The balance today is more even than it was in the 1950s. String theory is a far more promising venture than Einstein's unified field theory. Kuhn and Galison are running neck and neck in the race for glory. We are lucky to live in a time when both are going strong.

Is Science Mostly Driven by Ideas or by Tools?
Freeman J. Dyson
Science 14 December 2012:
Vol. 338 no. 6113 pp. 1426-1427
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1232773
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Is the Internet Becoming the Bot Net?

Is the Internet Becoming the Bot Net? | Papers | Scoop.it
From bigthink.com - April 5, 2012 11:59 PM

"On the Internet, we’ve reached a tipping point where more than 50% of all Internet traffic is no longer generated by humans – instead, it's generated by a motley mix of search engine spiders, bots, scrapers, scammers, hackers and, yes, spies. We are no longer talking about the Internet, we are talking about the Bot Net – a “bot-mediated reality” where algorithms and bots influence where we go, how long we spend there and with whom we communicate."

 

This great pick by Sakis Koukouvis goes on to list impressive facts on how the Internet is being controlled by robots. 

 

Time to put Human Curation back into the game?


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