A time traveler from 1915, arriving in 1965, would have been astonished by the advances in scientific theories and engineering technologies in the half-century. In the present day, a time traveler from 1965 to 2015 would find the Internet, medical imaging, advances in molecular biology, and more remarkable but largely incremental. There has been a cultural shift in science, due to new technologies, with communication and collaboration becoming more frequent and scientists being paid and promoted based on their degree of exposure, often leading to a search for “minimum publishable units”. This has resulted in an environment that is less conducive to deep, original thinking and an emphasis on data mining. In the future, there is the hope that meaningful theories and technologies will emerge if individual creativity is valued...
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