> that doesn't mean we produce science of equal impact
Of course we do, we make amazing science at such a huge rate most people can't even keep up with it anymore. If you believe computing has only little and only "quantitative" impact on science and communication than there is little I can do for you, computing has completely revolutionized every single science field. But sure, keep thinking it's just cat videos and porn. Maybe we should just go farming instead...
>Of course we do, we make amazing science at such a huge rate most people can't even keep up with it anymore. If you believe computing has only little and only "quantitative" impact on science and communication than there is little I can do for you, computing has completely revolutionized every single science field. But sure, keep thinking it's just cat videos and porn. Maybe we should just go farming instead...
The condescending tone is because you believe you are talking to some child or something?
People have differing opinions, and what you believe as the "objective truth" is not some kind of gospel.
As a matter of fact, the very issue of current science having much less impact nowadays has been stated before on HN, with very valid explanations and analysis behind it.
One reason, for example, is that the more important stuff in most scientific fields are the lower hanging fruits, and early scientists got most of them. It's a case of diminishing returns.
Say whatever you want, but any current discovery is not of the caliber of Maxwell's equations, the discovery of DNA or evolution, Einstein's theory of relatively, et al.
It's marginal, incremental work, not evolutionary. And people "can't even keep up with it anymore" just because it's so vast and concerns minutiae, not because it's so groundbreaking.
> that doesn't mean we produce science of equal impact
Of course we do, we make amazing science at such a huge rate most people can't even keep up with it anymore. If you believe computing has only little and only "quantitative" impact on science and communication than there is little I can do for you, computing has completely revolutionized every single science field. But sure, keep thinking it's just cat videos and porn. Maybe we should just go farming instead...