Google and the End of Science - Bringing it all back Hume, by
Anton Wylie, Register (Jul 9)
How much can data correlation and analysis explain what is? Google's research director Peter Norvig asserts that it can replace the scientific theories.
"Speaking at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference in March. Norvig claimed: "All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them" - a reference to Google's success at linking web-pages with users. [WiReD magazine's editor-in-chief Chris Anderson] Anderson has generalized that idea to science as a whole in a piece titled The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete:" (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory)
Posted by Gwen at July 9, 2008 10:34 AM