Scientific Freedom
by Donald W. Braben · first published 2008
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Donald Braben's book touches on what's changed pretty well I felt (published by Stripe press too): https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Freedom-Civilization-Donal...
on “Folk Computer” ↗Highly recommend reading Scientific Freedom (published by Stripe Press in fact) which touches on the important topic of the shrinking freedom in professionalized scientific research: https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Freedom-Civilization-Donal...
on “Can Xerox's PARC find new life with SRI?” ↗…getting harder to build a career focusing on inventing and discovering new ideas nowadays unfortunately. This is documented super well in this book (published by Stripe Press!): https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Freedom-Civilization-Donal...
on “Dynamicland 2024” ↗One of the best books in this area I've read is "Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization"
on “Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck (2018)” ↗…amounts of greenhouse gases such as CO2 into the atmosphere. They should be reduced, of course, or at least not increased until we are reasonably sure that we know what we are doing." (Donald W. Braben, Scientific Freedom) I wish everyone would consider that changing the fundamental makeup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere without any idea how we might reverse it is a pretty rash thing to do.
on “Modern Grand Solar Minimum will lead to terrestrial cooling” ↗