According to Chris Anderson, we are at “the end of science”, that is, science as we know it.” The quest for knowledge used to begin with grand theories. Now it begins with massive amounts of data. Welcome to the Petabyte Age.”
“At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of dimensionally agnostic statistics. It calls for an entirely different approach, one that requires us to lose the tether of data as something that can be visualized in its totality. It forces us to view data mathematically first and establish a context for it later.”
More about this here from Edge.org: [The Link]
With various responses to that article: [The Responses Link]
[…] are of research I wish to keep an eye on. This also relates back to an earlier article that I found [Earlier Article from Edge.org] about a similar principle. Here is an excerpt from the […]