From: Cory Przybyla (recherchetenet@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jul 22 2002 - 16:48:20 MDT
In "Hyperspace" by a brilliant physicist named Michio
Kaku, (Chapter 13), he suggests measuring it by means
of energy consumption. He speaks of former soviet
astronomer, Nikolai Kardashev's catagorization of type
0-III civilizations, I being able to control the
energy resources of an entire planet, II 'mining the
sun', III an entire galaxy thus leaving us still at 0.
It starts at a sub-chapter called "the exponential
rise of civilization". His reason for measuring as
such is he is looking into mastering the 10th
dimension i.e. the future prediction of it matters
most. Futurists have been on the whole so far off in
their predictions in the past (reference was made to
Jon Von Neumann), but this was copywritten in 1994, so
maybe more have been right since? Anyway, it's an
understandable way to measure it with specific numbers
you can probably find at various bureaus of energy,
and ignores any specific details which can be argued
one way or another depending on the arguer's slant. I
won't do the author injustice by trying to summerize
the section and probably misrepresent his ideas.
--- Joao Magalhaes <jpnitya@skynet.be> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Does anyone know of websites or books that measure
> the scientific output of
> the world? For example, one common assumption in
> transhumanism is that
> scientific output steadily increases, but are there
> any books or articles
> to prove this? How can we argue that unprecedented
> scientific breakthroughs
> will occur in the 21st century?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Joao Pedro de Magalhaes
>
> The University of Namur (FUNDP)
> Research Unit on Cellular Biology (URBC)
> Rue de Bruxelles, 61. B-5000 Namur. Belgium.
>
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>
>
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