The Next Fifty Years of Science - Kevin Kelley presents at Google Tech Talk

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Another longish vid, and some folks will find this booorrrrinnnnggg, but I like sh*t like this. This is Kevin Kelley giving a lecture on the history of science. Description from page is below. So far he hasn't even mentioned Thomas Kuhn. If you're at all interested in this topic, the history of science, you must read his "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions

Kevin Kelley has a cool site I like to check on from time to time. Kevin Kelley's Cool Tools http://www.kk.org/cooltools/
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The Next Fifty Years of Science

Google TechTalks May 9, 2006
47 min 53 sec - May 9, 2006
Kevin Kelly

ABSTRACT The scientific method which provides us with so many ... all » 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 predict what specific inventions will arise in the next 50 years, but based on long-term trends in epistemic tools, I believe we can speculate on how the scientific method itself -- that is, how we know -- will change in the next five decades.