Of course, there are many issues connected to the new dynamics of
science, not the least of which is intellectual property and
integrity. A totally new experience in research and knowledge
dissemination is taking place. The majority of the researchers
involved know that previous models, originating in the pragmatics
of the civilization of literacy, will not provide answers. As
beautiful as the science embodied in the technology of
industrial society is, it will not, not even accidentally,
contribute to the scientific progress in nanotechnology, in
bioinformatics, in fluid dynamics, and in other frontier domains
researched today. Gene expression and protein syntheses are many
working centuries-the total of the years contributed by
researchers to the advancement of their respective fields-ahead
of everything that science has produced in the past. Add to
these accomplishments in the ever-expanding list of modern
sciences, and you get the feeling that humankind is literally
reinventing itself in the civilization of illiteracy.
The list to follow is telling of the shift from the coarse level
of scientific effort corresponding to the industrial operations
of milling and grinding, to a level of atomic and sub-atomic
re-ordering. The same components, differently ordered, can appear
to us as graphite or diamonds, sand or silicon for chips. The
list represents a reality of enormous consequence, confirmed in
the daily commotion of a never-ending series of discoveries.
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