Tuesday, 19 May 2009

The End of Theory

A short trail of links starting from a tweet by Tony Hirst, led me to this article from Wired magazine last year:

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete By Chris Anderson Wired 23/6/08

I think he's suggesting that we can have so much data that we can build a 1:1 map. Maybe, but what's the point?

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