{"id":830,"date":"2006-11-21T09:29:12","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T09:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/21\/how-predictable\/"},"modified":"2006-11-21T09:29:12","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T09:29:12","slug":"how-predictable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/21\/how-predictable\/","title":{"rendered":"How Predictable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>New Scientist<\/cite> has decided to commemorate their 50th anniversary by asking a large number of scientists to predict what will happen in the next 50 years. As you might have predicted, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/channel\/opinion\/science-forecasts\">the list of responses<\/a>  includes a large number of short essays of the form:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Exciting new developments in my own field of research will completely transform our understanding of the universe and our place in it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nevertheless, they make for some interesting reading. Of course, they&#8217;re not sorted by topic, and it can get a little daunting trying to figure out who you should read, so it&#8217;s good that Sean Carroll (who made the list) <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicvariance.com\/2006\/11\/20\/brilliant\/\">provides an index for the physics contributions<\/a> and Phillip at BioCurious (who didn&#8217;t make the list) <a href=\"http:\/\/biocurious.com\/the-next-50-years\">offers some highlights of the biological contributions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Scientist has decided to commemorate their 50th anniversary by asking a large number of scientists to predict what will happen in the next 50 years. As you might have predicted, the list of responses includes a large number of short essays of the form: Exciting new developments in my own field of research will&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/21\/how-predictable\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Predictable<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_news","category-physics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}