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Am I the only person thinking this decade is going to see a huge scientific renaissance?
The late 50's and 60's saw a resurgence of interest in the scientific (a backlash to the post-war neo-puritanism), and I see it coming now. Over the last few years, we've seen the fundamentalist anti-science movement push harder and harder. Well, when you push a pendulum one way, eventually it swings back just as far. I can't be the only person irked with the pseudo-scientific and anti-scientific bullshit everywhere.
As the mainstream media (usually the last outlet to notice trends) is saturated with non-scientific garbage like Ghost Hunters and 2012, in the non-mainstream we see the immense popularity of things like "A Glorious Dawn" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc&fmt=18). (Sagan and Hawking FTW!). Even They Might Be Giants recently released an album around science.
Even less developed nations are starting to come into their technological/scientific revolutions. Western world beware, India and China are soon to be kicking our asses . Manual labour jobs are declining there, due to mechanization. This is exactly what happened here, leading to the massive explosion of information, technology and science-related jobs. A good amount of new technology jobs are no longer opening up here, but over there.
Anyone have their own thoughts?
The geek shall inherit the earth, my friends.
The late 50's and 60's saw a resurgence of interest in the scientific (a backlash to the post-war neo-puritanism), and I see it coming now. Over the last few years, we've seen the fundamentalist anti-science movement push harder and harder. Well, when you push a pendulum one way, eventually it swings back just as far. I can't be the only person irked with the pseudo-scientific and anti-scientific bullshit everywhere.
As the mainstream media (usually the last outlet to notice trends) is saturated with non-scientific garbage like Ghost Hunters and 2012, in the non-mainstream we see the immense popularity of things like "A Glorious Dawn" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc&fmt=18). (Sagan and Hawking FTW!). Even They Might Be Giants recently released an album around science.
Even less developed nations are starting to come into their technological/scientific revolutions. Western world beware, India and China are soon to be kicking our asses . Manual labour jobs are declining there, due to mechanization. This is exactly what happened here, leading to the massive explosion of information, technology and science-related jobs. A good amount of new technology jobs are no longer opening up here, but over there.
Anyone have their own thoughts?
The geek shall inherit the earth, my friends.