article of interest – academic publishing

I will read this article later, it might be of interest of anyone else who shouts and fumes over similar side-issues of life.

the future of science

I’ve just run across Kevin Kelly’s blog and an article by him in the edge (through slashdot). If you are interested in either 1) spiritualicity and science or 2) the beramblings of confused authors you might want to check him out. I will try to read through his blog enough to pull out a few jems and post some comments here later.

“the future of science”

Maybe this is the kind of writing that is good for “the general public”, but to anyone under 40 who reads, it should sound like hokey, scientilicious word-fangling by an old man. The problem is that catch-phrases and jargon often end up coming from such writing. What he’s saying isn’t crazy, but I don’t think it’s profound either…and why call computer assisted calculation “combinatorial sweep exploration”. Do real biologists really use these terms? It seems like his big revelation is that computers will increasingle change how we do things and one of those things is science. Wow, I’m mindblown.

“Science is the way we surprise God.” What the hell does this mean?

Kelly also references Stephen Wolfram’s New Kind of Science without making some sort of joke. No one really does this, do they?

I’m not sure if Stephen Wolfram’s book, ‘A New Kind of Science’ (several years old now) is known to the non-science public. If you haven’t read “a new kind of review” of the book, do so and it should give you an idea the how people have received the tome.