Kevin Kelly: Technium Unbound
Long Now
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Is It Science?
I think the first step is observation, collecting data about the thing. And then we can begin to try and do some experiments, make some predictions, and collect more data. Then I think that if we even just had a sense that it was real, then we could begin to pay attention to it. It's not science right now. It's still on the verge of on the edge of poetry, but it needs to be taken scientifically. So what we don't want to do is to prohibit it or prevent it or pretend that it's not there. We engage with it and say, okay, this is it? What can we do? Let's observe it and then interact with it
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