Book Titles

We eventually will cease to understand significant parts of the science underlying our jobs and lives – many of us already have.

As science progresses, each new marginal discovery is more the result of specialization and less the result of general breakthroughs, compared to earlier times.

Science is more of a cooperative endeavor than in earlier times, and that means the individual research contribution is smaller, even during periods of great progress.

The ability to ‘go it alone’ is conducive to rapid innovation and innovation by amateurs. Lone individuals and small groups can make major contributions…

As scientific progress makes lone contributions harder to sustain, machine intelligence may be creating new possibilities for the amateur and for the nonconformist.

At any point in time, there will be some new breakthrough areas, where innovators are fundamental and redefine entire sectors of knowledge rather quickly…

Science tends to look more like bureaucracy, and in standard bureaucracies no single mind has much of a grasp on the whole.

There have been plenty of scientific advances, but the world seems to be a messier place conceptually than before.

…there is no guarantee that future advances will move us back to a simpler conceptual world, and if anything the likelihood seems to point in the opposite direction.

It’s not much of a leap to think we will arrive at the point – or maybe we already have – where no one understands the equations being written down.