What Michael Nielsen Thinks About Basically Everything
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Is There a Slowdown in Science?
How would we know if we're not in a slowdown anymore as it relates to the rate of scientific innovation? Verna Vinci, who I think first popularized,. though science fictionist, author Verna. Vinci, said that you would wake up one morning and there would be a mountain range out the back that hadn't been there the previous day. So they'd be certain if things sped up enough, there might be some really remarkable changes. It's just difficult to say anything from the last five or ten years. The New York Times is such an unreliable guide to science.
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