Inaccessability of Science

tags:: #connections #society projects::Connections Ep 10 Yesterday, Tomorrow, and You

• Because of the accessability of communication with others in a field specialized language was made to be able to talk about nuanced topics

  • this happened first with the printing press which began making science inaccessable to the layperson
    • before the printing press water power was the norm, which was simple for anyone to understand
    • however after that more advanced technologies where invented like the steam engine which are harder to comprehend and its only gotten more complex to the degree of nuclear energy today
  • Connections Ep 10 Yesterday, Tomorrow, and You goes on to speculate about how we are about to (as of 1970) go through a "communiction revolution" which correctly predicted the internet
    • it discusses how this would even further seperate the average person from science and invention
  • that prediction was absolutely true and the internet has drastically changed science as an industry and made it more innaccessable in many ways

• Connections Ep 10 Yesterday, Tomorrow, and You