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But as more of our observations and measurements of nature are captured 24/7, in real time, in increasing variety of sensors and probes, science too will enter the field of zillionics and be easily processed by the new tools of Correlative Analytics. In this part of science, we may get answers that work, but which we don’t understand. Is this partial understanding? Or a different kind of understanding?
Kevin Kelly’s The Google Way of Science (The Technium) in response to The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete by Chris Anderson in Wired with similar analysis in Google and the end of everything (Mathew Ingram) and Why the cloud cannot obscure the scientific method (John Timmer/ars technica)
