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• 2012-01-05

  

• 2011-12-04

  Citizen Scientists Take On the Health Establishment - WSJ.com

  futuramb:

  Ordinary people are taking control of their health data, making their DNA public and running their own experiments. Their big question: Why should science be limited to professionals?

  This article tells the story about a number of non-scientists who tries to perform research on their own outside the academic community and without formal training. They are or course being met by both regulations which work against them, and the mistrust from the professional scientists who have all sorts of arguments why the research is not valid or good enough.

  It might of course be true that citizen scientists are producing inferior results to professional scientists, might judging from what is happening in almost all other professional areas, it will change very soon.

  When citizen scientists realize they don’t have to meet scientists in their own arena and compete by writing research articles and get them published in scientific ournals heavily guarded by peer scientists they will succeed. By publishing books and articles that is reviewed by their own peers they will fast get up to speed and create a knowledge process of their own going.

  This development is bound to happen due to

  • the vast number of curious, critical and well educated people who is held back by traditional and boring jobs and want to achieve something and contribute to society or even solve a personal problem for themselves or their family
  • all knowledge and global communication is going to be available for free
  • their are a lot of problems and issues which is relevant to society of people that noone in the scientific community care about - partly due to financial reasons and partly for the reasons of the inertia of the way science is developing into new areas
  • the times of structural change and technology development from the an industrial era to a post industrial one will make millions of highly educated people unemployed or just partly employed which leaves them with a lot of spare time - or just a cognitive surplus - which can be used to write books and why not doing research?

  This will liberate the knowledge creation processes into many different strands initially creating chaos, but eventually emerge into Science 2.0, a broad and collaborative knowledge process in which everybody can collaborate without having to fight their way into a an old, stubborn and ignorant academic community which often is more interesting in protecting their own kind than to spread curiosity and knowledge creation skills to the masses.

  The traditional academic community will most likely not disappear but rather fall back into a small and not so significant niche. Just one small part of a gigantic global knowledge community.

  (via emergentfutures)

  Source: futuramb

• 2011-11-15

• 2011-10-06

  The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.” -President Obama

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  Swimming in a pool with my mom and dad

• 2011-10-05

  

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• 2011-10-03

  

  Two of my favorite people in the world

• 2011-10-02

  Portland, Oregon

  We will begin, in the beginning the Weekend I got my first DSLR camera, my cannon t1i. This is the camera I am currently using, but I hope and scheme to get a 5D real soon.