Are we trying to cope differently with the world around us? With our questions and uncertainties?
If http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory is true and we really are not trying to find out why something happens, but limit ourselves to some statistical relation between lots of data, analyzed by fast computers, then ofcourse there is no reason to read long texts http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google any longer and to try to synthesize some meaning.
But asking "why" is -or was- the basic issue in Science, so: has the definition been changed?
thx to Siva Vaidhyanathan http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/ for posting his course materials.
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