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I'm not sure there's been any acceleration of discovery in the hard sciences. The 30-40 years have seen tech advancements roughly in line with Moore's law, whi

I'm not sure there's been any acceleration of discovery in the hard sciences. The 30-40 years have seen tech advancements roughly in line with Moore's law, which is fantastic. But that's the result of engineering advancements. There's no precedent I'm aware of to expect the same results out of the hard sciences.

3JPLW 11y ago
I'd disagree. New tools for biologists in the last 20 years have strongly accelerated the field. The trouble in Physics is that the new tools look like the LHC.