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What paradigm underlies The digital revolution
"computational science"?
In the late 1980's, how much less than 1%, now more than 99%
information was stored digitally? And
how much now?
If we would take 5ZB of information Many times from the Earth to the Sun
and store it in books. How far would
the pile reach?
What does it mean that the amount of Each 2-3 years, as much is added to what we have
technologically stored information accumulated since the beginning
"doubles" every 2-3 years?
With digital revolution, what changed? More people document social reality nowadays
Did the DNA of all human cells store Less, digital information grows much much faster
more or less information than digital
technology in 2014? (5 ZB)
What do evolutionary theorists say Every time we (life) came up with a new way of
about the "Major Transitions in processing information, a major transition happened
Evolution"?
From this social evolutionary Society as a whole has become indispensably
perspective, the digital and the dependent on digital technology
biological are merged when:
, The first wave of scientific A small number of variables
advancements focused on:
The second wave of scientific averages of many (rather unknown) variables
advancements focused on:
Why is it limiting to study society with Societies contain more than 2-3 variables and are too
the dominant scientific methods from complex to work with aggregate averages
the 19th and 20th century?
When doing social science, we study Networks of people and their tech
what level of abstraction?
How and in reference to what did he At each of these levels, new rules/laws "emerge" that
use the word "emergence"? can be studied
Who does the Anteater (a bear-like An ant colony called "Aunt Hillary"
animal) communicate with in this
metaphor?
What baffled philosophers like Kant, How predictable social patterns emerge from a
and sociologists like Durkheim? bunch of individual free will
What was a main distinction made by the intention of the individual and collective
both economists like Smith and intentions of society
political scientists like Rousseau? The
distinction between:
All different kinds of "social science" How society emerges from individual parts
disciplines are fundamentally
interested in what?
What was the main approach toward He made observations and from there, developed
science adopted by Charles Darwin? ideas
What did Albert Einstein do in 1905 He developed theory, not based on empirical
and 1915? observations, but on ideas
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Terms in this set (140)
What paradigm underlies The digital revolution
"computational science"?
In the late 1980's, how much less than 1%, now more than 99%
information was stored digitally? And
how much now?
If we would take 5ZB of information Many times from the Earth to the Sun
and store it in books. How far would
the pile reach?
What does it mean that the amount of Each 2-3 years, as much is added to what we have
technologically stored information accumulated since the beginning
"doubles" every 2-3 years?
With digital revolution, what changed? More people document social reality nowadays
Did the DNA of all human cells store Less, digital information grows much much faster
more or less information than digital
technology in 2014? (5 ZB)
What do evolutionary theorists say Every time we (life) came up with a new way of
about the "Major Transitions in processing information, a major transition happened
Evolution"?
From this social evolutionary Society as a whole has become indispensably
perspective, the digital and the dependent on digital technology
biological are merged when:
, The first wave of scientific A small number of variables
advancements focused on:
The second wave of scientific averages of many (rather unknown) variables
advancements focused on:
Why is it limiting to study society with Societies contain more than 2-3 variables and are too
the dominant scientific methods from complex to work with aggregate averages
the 19th and 20th century?
When doing social science, we study Networks of people and their tech
what level of abstraction?
How and in reference to what did he At each of these levels, new rules/laws "emerge" that
use the word "emergence"? can be studied
Who does the Anteater (a bear-like An ant colony called "Aunt Hillary"
animal) communicate with in this
metaphor?
What baffled philosophers like Kant, How predictable social patterns emerge from a
and sociologists like Durkheim? bunch of individual free will
What was a main distinction made by the intention of the individual and collective
both economists like Smith and intentions of society
political scientists like Rousseau? The
distinction between:
All different kinds of "social science" How society emerges from individual parts
disciplines are fundamentally
interested in what?
What was the main approach toward He made observations and from there, developed
science adopted by Charles Darwin? ideas
What did Albert Einstein do in 1905 He developed theory, not based on empirical
and 1915? observations, but on ideas
