Technology Review: Scientific History and the Lessons for Today’s Emerging Ideas
In a hundred years time, historians of science and technology will look back at our age and marvel at the theories, experiments, and breakthroughs that characterise our age.
But they will also puzzle over the scientific cul de sacs of our time: the theories and ideas that fell by the wayside because they turned out to be misconceived, wrong or just plain mumbo jumbo.
Inevitably, this raises an interesting question: how much of what we consider mainstream investigation will fall into this category of best-forgotten science?
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