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More talk of the future
By Sparky | March 19, 2006
/. links to a rather interesting article by Kevin Kelly on his speculations on the future of science. Kevin Kelly is a fantastic writer and co-founder of Wired Magazine and his views on the future make for a well-informed read.
Of particular note and agreement of mine are his points about Combinatorial Sweep Exploration, Evolutionary Search and Wiki-Science. I firmly believe that as technology increases and processing power becomes so powerful as to make research tasks that would be inconceivable by todays standards easy and possible in the blink of an eye.
As computers are able to use evolutionary genetic algorithms to explore further from the solid research foundation of todays scientific knowledge base, and have explore near limitless variations within reasonable amounts of time.
Wiki’s and other collaborative technologies are quickly going to be replaced by future AI based information retrieval systems, but today lay a solid indexable knowledge base on the internet. We are already starting to see how collaborative internet technologies are changing scientific research forever and helping to rapidly advance human knowledge.
Update: I just keep reading more and more from Technicum, Keven Kelly’s blog. It’s GREAT stuff - I highly encourage everyone to consume it immediately!
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