The current issue of Nature is a special issue containing articles on the future of computing; speculations on what computing will look like in 2020. Vernor Vinge suggests that “The Internet will have leaked out, to become coincident with Earth.” Sounds like Dan Simmons’ noosphere. This is why I love SF, folks. Two articles discuss how we will cope with an explosion of scientific data. Redefining Big Science: big as in yottabytes. Very cool stuff, this.
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lukethelibrarian
I’ll have to find Dan Simmons… for me it brings to mind Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.