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Branding the Digital Watershed

Posted by Tim Stevens on 9 July 2008

Wise words from the mighty Stewart Brand of the Long Now Foundation at The Edge:

Digital humanity apparently crossed from one watershed to another over the last few years. Now we are noticing. Noticing usually helps. We’ll converge on one or two names for the new watershed and watch what induction tells us about how it works and what it’s good for.

Dry as ever. Read this and plenty of other responses to Chris Anderson’s article The End of Theory: Will the Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete?

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