Science, Technology and our Globalized

Culture

Nathaniel J. C. Libatique, Ph.D.

The Scientific Culture Body of knowledge

Internally consistent Logical interrelationship, coherent whole Predictive power, verifiable results, empirical

observation Questions have more value than the

answers: Paradigms vs Anomalies Community of researchers, peer review,

system of journals and publication: Verification by experiment

Key assumption: nature has an inherent order, a logical structure often akin to mathematics; tools = logical inference, inductive reasoning, analogies, math, luck

Peer Review, Citations & Connected Networks

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=authoritative+sources+in+a+hyperlinked+environment&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2001&as_sdtp=on

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=10769545824810360367&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=2000&hl=en

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=newman+and+girvan&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2001&as_sdtp=on

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=n+libatique&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2001&as_sdtp=on

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=2969005127078361715&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=2000&hl=en

Kekule’s Dream

Structure of the Benzene molecule

http://leegass.com/gallery/lees-sculptures/nature/kekules-dream/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene

In 1865 the German chemist Friedrich August Kekulé published a paper in French (for he was then teaching in Francophone Belgium) suggesting that the structure contained a six-membered ring of carbon atoms with alternating single and double bonds. The next year he published a much longer paper in German on the same subject.[5][6] Kekulé used evidence that had accumulated in the intervening years—namely, that there always appeared to be only one isomer of any monoderivative of benzene, and that there always appeared to be exactly three isomers of every derivative—to argue in support of his proposed structure. Kekulé's symmetrical ring could explain these curious facts, as well as benzene's 1:1 carbon-hydrogen ratio.

Future Shock First Wave: Agriculture

Nomads settled Surplus produce, stability

Second Wave: Industrial Revolution Newtonian physics, mechanistic world

view Internal combustion engine, mass

production, communications Third Wave: Knowledge Driven

Technology DNA Quantum engineering, nanotech Information technology Service driven economy

Catch Up Game: 2nd Wave

2nd Wave: economies of scale Portugal and Spain were left behind

during the Industrial Revolution by Northern Europe (Japan too…)

70’s: Japan; Currently: China and the rest of BRIC

Globalization

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/03DOMINANCE.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

It's a Flat World, After AllBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMANApril 3, 2005, New York Times

In 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail for India, going west. He had the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. He never did find India, but he called the people he met ''Indians'' and came home and reported to his king and queen: ''The world is round.'' I set off for India 512 years later. I knew just which direction I was going. I went east. I had Lufthansa business class, and I came home and reported only to my wife and only in a whisper: ''The world is flat.'' ……

Globalization 1.0: Nation StatesGlobalization 2.0: Multinational CorporationsGlobalization 3.0: The Individual!

Ten Flatteners 1. destruction of the berlin wall and the

creation of microsoft windows (universal OS platform)

2. creation of Netscape -- universal communications platform - which triggered massive investment by companies like Global Crossing in fiber optics -- think railroads -- but railroads to india

3. workflow to make use of the these fiber optic railroads

4. outsourcing 5. offshoring 6. open-sourcing -- think perl, linux, etc 7. insourcing -- letting UPS handle your

internal logistics 8. supply-chaining -- think walmart's chain

from china to here 9. informing -- Google 10. “steroids” -- taking everything before and

improving it - thinks VOIP, WIRELESS, etc

Tell me it isn’t flat… Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Linus Torvalds, Linux Apache vs. IBM S. Brin, L Page, Google vs. Yahoo Blake Ross, Firefox Wikipedia vs. Brittanica

Encyclopedia SMART: Pasaload Jollibee, McCurry Lord of The Rings Larry Qua, Ionics EMS

Linus TorvaldsFrom: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMTOrganization: University of Helsinki

Hello everybody out there using minix -

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things). I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi) PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.

Chief YahoosJerry Yang was born in Taiwan in 1968.

David Filo was born in Louisiana in 1966. Yang earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering at Stanford University and then continued to work toward his doctorate. Filo earned his bachelor's degree in computer engineering at Tulane University and his master's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford. He then continued to work toward his doctorate in electrical engineering at Stanford, which is how Yang and Filo met in the early 1990s. They became bored with their classes and increasingly attracted to the growing interest in the Internet. They realized the need for and began creating a small index of web addresses, which more and more people began to use. Eventually, in 1994, Yahoo! was born. From there, the trials of financial backing and big business were just beginning for Yang and Filo.

Jerry Yang and David Filo: Chief Yahoos of Yahoo! (Techies) (Powell’s Books)by Josepha Sherman

http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780761319610

Sergey Brin and Larry Page

Facebook 2004-07: $38M

pumped into FB from Greylock Partners, Meritech partners and Accel Partners

March 2006: Facebook on the block for upwards of $0.7B hwww.businessweek.com/technology/content/ mar2006/tc20060327_215976.htm

May 20, 2007: Yahoo offers to buy FB for $1.6B

Wikipedia

http://www.ted.com/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html

Jimmy Wales

Video ClipsPlease watch the following video on

youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcE2ufqtzyk&feature=related

; MIT Milestone Celebration Keynote Address by Thomas Friedman).

Other video: * Rob MacEwen of GoldCorp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQca_xH3BVI