The last scientific discovery

I doubt anyone could keep up with all the development in science and discovery these days.

The number of new discoveries seems to accelerate.

Which means we are accelerating to the time when the last discovery will be finally announced.

There has to be a last discovery.  The number of discoverable science facts is not infinite, is it?

That's a good question. A good question which, I suspect, is unanswerable.  The reason? -- we don't know what we don't know. (If we know that we don't know something, we can make that the subject of our research, but we can't research something that we don't even know exists as a subject to study.)

Now to the point.  What if the number of discoverable science facts is not infinite.  What if some day, say 50 years from now, all of the scientists come together and announce that every single significant discovery has been made.  

What then?  What do scientists do starting the next day after that big announcement.

I want you to know that this is a think piece that I don't have an answer.  I just think that pondering whether there will ever be a final discovery lets us get a clearer picture of who we (humans) are and what we do. 

We are discoverers, searchers, pioneers.  It is in our blood and our souls.  

Suppose, however, that final scientific discovery had been made 50 years ago today. What would we be doing now?

Who would we be?

Go look in the mirror, pioneer.

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What's your list life like?

How many lists do you have?

I am a list man, but I am not a LIST man.

I don't do lists for lists sake.  I do however have a  list of things to do. If I do something that is not on the list, I put in on the list and then cross it off.  That makes be a list man, I am sure.

However,  I keep my lists to minimum.  At least that is what I thought until I started counting them the other day.

1. -- The to do list.  I have a written one and I have been experimenting with online organizers -- haven't found the perfect one yet.
2. Bookmarks list in Google Chrome -- it is getting big, but is
   
   not yet unwieldy.  And, it is classified so I can find what I need quickly.
3. Passwordslist.  Need this, since I am access the internet though three devices these days.
4. The history list of sites I have visited -- on all three devices and three different browsers.
5. My start page list in my Chrome browser -- it does the work for me by listing bookmarks, history and websites I use frequently.
6. My email in box -- well not so much the inbox but the several dozen folders I stuff things in-- to keep track of projects, things I want to refer to again, and ideas I am developing.
7. My email client also has several of my contact lists -- one I imported, another is a list of contact emails from saved emails sent to me, and several for different projects.  I haven't imported my big email list into that yet, but I will get around to it soon.
8. My email client also has a list of sorts in the calendar -- birthdays, events and other important dates.
9. I have list in Preceden.com where I track my technology life. I have it divided by my Business timeline and by my private timeline.
10. I have a list on Pearltrees.com that is quite extensive. Its about several technology areas that I like to keep up with -- the good thing about it is that this is a shared list -- others that follow these topics add to the list -- I get the benefit of their finds.
11. I use OneTab -- when my browser tabs get too cluttered, I push the OneTab icon and it closes all the tabs, but keeps a list of them on the one tab it keeps open.  That way I can get back to any of them quickly.
12. I use SpringPad to keep a record of special things I want to refer back to.
13. I also use Archify -- I know, this is redundant, but I like having things taken care of for me such as my web footprints.
14. And I use GetPocket -- mainly for things I don't have time to read now.
15. I am experimenting with Clipboard and NoteBoard and others.
16. I use BufferApp.com to keep up with my tweets and their stats.
17. I use StatCounter to keep up with stats on my web sites-- 8 different lists.
18. On Twitter, I have lists of my 287 followers and 491 whom I follow.
     I am following and 787 tweets I have sent out.
19. I also make good use of the Twitter lists -- I have 20 lists -- most of them public but some private ones to. The public ones include News, Texas News, Southeast Texas Tweeters and more.
20. I also use Linkedin -- where I have a list of 387 connections and 18 groups I follow.
21. I could add a few more. ( Heck who am I kidding, I could add a couple dozen more -- Facebook, Google+,Youtube, Google Docs, iGoogle ( I read a lot of RSS feeds so I am converting over to Feedly ), and don't get me started on all the lists on Google Dashboard and my web site hosting space. What I am looking for in #21 is a way to depublicate these lists, bring it all together and give me the extra power that the Internet promised.

What's your list life like?

Twitter's role in selling a house

I was sitting in the bathroom today, listening to the skylight.

Photo Credit: o palsson via Compfight cc

You heard me right.

It is a very windy day and the clouds are racing buy -- the low ones are racing to the west and the higher ones are zooming northeastward.

This I supposed makes for some very gusty stuff and the skylight is taking part in it. Every few minutes it makes a crackle or a plastic twisting kind of sound.

I was sitting there thinking of this, having just been on twitter.   Maybe I should tweet this?

My thoughts started to roll like the wind outside.  It got me to wondering: When you buy a house, you do a title search.  Maybe in the future you will do a social engine search before purchasing your next home.  Just to see what the occupant complained about in their humble abode.

Maybe you tweeted how you hated the neighbors or how you had to build a fence to keep their dog out.  Maybe you complained every time the toilet overflowed ( and it overflowed a lot.)

I could go on, but, I think you get the twitpic.

Social media changes everything doesn't it?