Metamodern’s readership shows what I consider to be good taste. Five of the six most popular posts in the blog’s first year (and several more in the top 20) have been, not about news or about the specifics of a technology, but instead about something deeper and more durable: knowledge itself — the structure of science, how scientific and engineering knowledge fit together at the most fundamental level, and how to acquire a broad, integrated understanding of it all:
- How to Learn About Everything
- How to Understand Everything (and Why)
- A Map of Science
- The Antiparallel Structures of Science and Engineering
- Science and Engineering: A Layer-Cake of Inquiry and Design
- A Telescope Aimed at the Future
- Exploratory Engineering:
Applying the predictive power of science
to future technologies
Another post in the top ranks isn’t about knowledge per se, but discusses the most important application of exploratory engineering, an application that provides a basis for a particular, limited, but important kind of knowledge about the future of technology:
And for a discussion of the strategic core
of technology development, see:
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