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L’article du NY Times ne donnait pas envie de lire le livre, en tout cas, avec tout un fatras comme quoi les neutrinos ne respectent plus le peer-review, et les citations de tout un tas d’autorités classiques, pour montrer que l’auteur les connait, en finissant par les références mal comprises à la mécanique quantique et au théorème de Gödel.

J’inscris le blog dans mes préférés pour prendre le temps de le lire à tête reposée, ce n’est pas facile de le lire du premier coup en anglais. Merci

y a des intuitions intéressantes quand même

Now, he said, the model of a protean, ever-linked and ever-changing world is killing that. “The dream of the West has been that we will live together in knowledge, that there is One Knowledge. The Web is saying ‘Nice try,’” Mr. Weinberger said. By its very success we know that “the Internet as a medium is far more like the world we live in” and “the Web is closer to the phenomenological truth of our lives,” he said

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He did not offer any ideas about what lasting institutions could be developed as the old ones are undone. He did say that business, which responds to the market, would probably steward the change better than government, which has fixed commitments.

Mr. Weinberger’s argument raises an entirely different point. The idea that “truth” is situational and changing, always best described in quote marks, has emerged in many areas of contemporary thought. Ideas of situationalism, disorder as a natural state, and perpetual change are implicit in the thinking of Darwin, Marx and Freud.