Comments on: The Future of Science

By: Joey Cheung

Joey Cheung — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:45:40 +0000

Hi Michael,
Thank you for your quality essay. I am an aspiring economist and I am interested in science as a whole too. Economics academia is no different than that of science. After your essay and the comments above. I have few quick thoughts.
1. I agree with some readers that scientists have too high workload. Some barely have time reading blogs of their counterparts, which I think is a great lost.
2. I am really grateful so many people offered insightful and thoughtful comment. But I can’t agree with information overload brought up by a reader more. I did not scrutinize all comments thought I know some if not majority will be interesting. I always have this love/hate feelings for comments.
3. An economist Paul Krugman shares your view. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/in-praise-of-econowonkery/
4. I look forward to your essay about quantifying contributions.
(On quantifying contributions: you’re absolutely right, there’s all kinds of questions here. It really needs a separate essay. I hope to come back to it at length later.)
5. There is a project called Edge http://www.edge.org which assembles scientists in a online discussion salon. I love this initiative.

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