Comments on: The End of Theory? http://socialmode.com/2008/07/04/the-end-of-theory/ Integrated Synthesis of Media, Society and Behavior Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:28:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: rickmurphy http://socialmode.com/2008/07/04/the-end-of-theory/#comment-379 rickmurphy Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:44:39 +0000 http://un1crom.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-379 So, I’ve read the article and followed the debate and thought folks might appreciate perspectives that encompass Chris Anderson’s recent technological utopia in the End of Theory and and Carr’s distopia in Is Google Making us Stupid. Hope you enjoy my: Signs of the Singularity and Why Chris Anderson and Nicholas Carr won’t make the next cut here … http://phaneron.rickmurphy.org/?p=26 An excerpt follows ... I noticed a similarity recently in posts from Chris Anderson and Nicholas Carr. Over the past few months both of these widely read authors published a thought provoking post that calls into question humanity's stewardship of knowledge in today's 2.0 world. And each post contains signs of the singularity. Read on brave traveler, but don't forget to bring your towel ! Anderson, in The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete, postulates a world of technological utopianism without realism. Throughout his post Anderson challenges the scientific method with citations from authorities like Box and Turing. Despite the strength of each of his premises, the absurdity of Anderson's challenge to the scientific method is surpassed only by his inability to reason. So, I’ve read the article and followed the debate and thought folks might appreciate perspectives that encompass Chris Anderson’s recent technological utopia in the End of Theory and and Carr’s distopia in Is Google Making us Stupid. Hope you enjoy my: Signs of the Singularity and Why Chris Anderson and Nicholas Carr won’t make the next cut here …

http://phaneron.rickmurphy.org/?p=26

An excerpt follows …

I noticed a similarity recently in posts from Chris Anderson and Nicholas Carr. Over the past few months both of these widely read authors published a thought provoking post that calls into question humanity’s stewardship of knowledge in today’s 2.0 world. And each post contains signs of the singularity. Read on brave traveler, but don’t forget to bring your towel !

Anderson, in The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete, postulates a world of technological utopianism without realism. Throughout his post Anderson challenges the scientific method with citations from authorities like Box and Turing. Despite the strength of each of his premises, the absurdity of Anderson’s challenge to the scientific method is surpassed only by his inability to reason.

]]> By: The Phaneron http://socialmode.com/2008/07/04/the-end-of-theory/#comment-378 The Phaneron Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:03:27 +0000 http://un1crom.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-378 <strong> Signs of the Singularity and Why Chris Anderson and Nicholas Carr Won’t Make the Next Cut...</strong> I noticed a similarity recently in posts from Chris Anderson and Nicholas Carr. Over the past few months both of these widely read authors published a thought provoking post that calls into question humanity’s stewardship of knowledge in today’s 2.0 ... Signs of the Singularity and Why Chris Anderson and Nicholas Carr Won’t Make the Next Cut…

I noticed a similarity recently in posts from Chris Anderson and Nicholas Carr. Over the past few months both of these widely read authors published a thought provoking post that calls into question humanity’s stewardship of knowledge in today’s 2.0 …

]]> By: jim http://socialmode.com/2008/07/04/the-end-of-theory/#comment-313 jim Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:37:58 +0000 http://un1crom.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-313 The end of theory tries to be both theory and non-theory. Consider that everything is wrong with the data, perhaps something missing can be found by observing petabytes? All databases are incomplete informationally making data unrealiable as a way to externalize real-world situations. Human factors are left out of computer programs and models, and likely this accelerates the doomsday scenary of computers taking over the world. Already people's boss has become their computer, and it will give them more work harder and dumber to help them. The end of theory tries to be both theory and non-theory. Consider that everything is wrong with the data, perhaps something missing can be found by observing petabytes? All databases are incomplete informationally making data unrealiable as a way to externalize real-world situations. Human factors are left out of computer programs and models, and likely this accelerates the doomsday scenary of computers taking over the world. Already people’s boss has become their computer, and it will give them more work harder and dumber to help them.

]]> By: Mason Ross http://socialmode.com/2008/07/04/the-end-of-theory/#comment-303 Mason Ross Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:13:51 +0000 http://un1crom.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-303 Nice! Another bombastic bag of wind surfaces to proclaim... science is really hard! Hell, we're going to have another saint in a couple of years so why not claim something equally bombastic "THE END OF THEORY'! These claims and similar ones [..."end of the Internet as we know it,"..."unification bridge theory"...etc] come about when people spend too much time in front of their computers AND they look for the "thing" rather than the relationships. I, for one, think there is a media conspiracy to chip away at the basics of science and replace it with myopic musings of scientific nilhists. Oops! I wasn’t suppose to have anymore theories… Its just that I am at a loss on how to explain the latest epilog "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" being run on the 4th of July right before Larry King Live has the UFO special on with astronauts and experts to answer the question, "Did a UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico 61 years ago? Military cover-up, hoax or the real thing? The truth is out there!" A startling coincidence or… an organized plan disguised as a correlation? We need an algos to tease this apart... Nice!

Another bombastic bag of wind surfaces to proclaim… science is really hard!

Hell, we’re going to have another saint in a couple of years so why not claim something equally bombastic “THE END OF THEORY’!

These claims and similar ones [..."end of the Internet as we know it,"..."unification bridge theory"...etc] come about when people spend too much time in front of their computers AND they look for the “thing” rather than the relationships.

I, for one, think there is a media conspiracy to chip away at the basics of science and replace it with myopic musings of scientific nilhists. Oops! I wasn’t suppose to have anymore theories…

Its just that I am at a loss on how to explain the latest epilog “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” being run on the 4th of July right before Larry King Live has the UFO special on with astronauts and experts to answer the question, “Did a UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico 61 years ago? Military cover-up, hoax or the real thing? The truth is out there!” A startling coincidence or… an organized plan disguised as a correlation?

We need an algos to tease this apart…

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