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The Evolution of Science
A guy named Derek DeSola Price started to calculate that science is on an exponential trajectory and rather than thinking that that's a great thing he starts to understand that it can't really go on. Now embedded growth obligations are the way in which institutions play in their future predicated on legacies of growth. Many of our institutions became predicated upon low variance technology led stable broadly distributed growth. This is a world we have not seen in an organic way since the early nineteen seventies, yet because it was embedded in our institutions what we have is a world in which the expectation is still there. We have effectively become a growth cargo cult like planes used to land in the Pacific let's say