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Joi Ito: Review of Science in Action

During a discussion on IRC about science and whether it is a method, tool, philosophy, belief system along other belief systems and so on Joi Ito dropped this link and recommended a book related to the subject.

"It approaches the process of the progress of science and the development of 'facts' from the human and social perspective. Latour starts out the book by chronicling the discovery of DNA and the development of the Eclipse MV/8000 computer. He shows how 'facts' are black boxes that become fact through a process of competition that involves building networks of references until people start to refer to your theory as a fact and use it to build their facts."

It seems an interesting read. Joi mentioned something in the channel on how labs and processes can be working wrong since they are modelled around something they want to prove. At least that is how I interpreted him. Like quantum physics. You choose what to study since you can't measure speed and position at the same time, so perhaps you get the result you are looking for...?

Joi Ito's Web: Science in Action - Bruno Latour

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