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It was Tycho Brahe’s assistant Johannes Kepler who took Brahe’s catalog of systematic astronomical observations and discovered the laws of planetary motion. This established the division between the mining and analysis of captured and carefully archived experimental data and the creation of theories. This division is one aspect of the Fourth Paradigm.
The Fourth Paradigm
Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley, and Kristin Tolle
Class struggle was a serious thing in the Gothic times of modernity: it was the conscious effort of the exploited to free themselves from their exploiters—words that sound incomprehensible in the baroque era of spectacular hyper-violence.
Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
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