Truth Teller: The Future of Scientific Truth — Sam Arbesman

“With advances in science, more and more is being known to fewer and fewer.” In this video, Sam Arbesman speaks about complexity.

“In the future stories will only be told in native language – without subtitles.” Adriene Jenik on truthtelling in art.

We understand the world through stories. Our stories may be rooted in rigorous fact or unbounded imagination but, being incomplete, they are always lies. Many are useful, however, because humans are pattern-seeking animals. Stories are the way we make sense of a complex world. We build our very selves through the stories that make sense to us – that we chose to believe.

Dawn has risen over the desert flatlands and industrial hardscapes of the Valley of the Sun and Emerge 2013 is about to begin. We have gathered some of the world’s

By Torie Bosch Neil Harbisson can “hear” the orange (the color, that is) Photo by Dan Wilton This article arises from Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, the New America Foundation, and

By Emily Anthes | Posted Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, at 10:34 AM A remote-controlled flying flower beetle.Photo courtesy Michel Maharbiz. This article arises from Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, the New America Foundation,

What if technology makes scientific discoveries that we can’t understand? By Samuel Arbesman|Posted Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, at 5:47 AM Karl Popper in the 1980s.Courtesy of the London School of Economics

Can society survive if computers can tell fact from fib? By Brian David Johnson|Posted Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, at 8:45 AM What if computers could tell when we are lying?Photo by

From: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/02/emerge_2013_what_will_truth_mean_in_the_future.html By Brad Allenby|Posted Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at 8:15 AM Is Google Glass one way humans have begun designing themselves? Photo by Kimihiro Hoshino/AFP/Getty Images This article arises from Future Tense,

“If you were stuck in an apocalyptic shell of a world, would you rather have an iPad 3 or a BiC lighter?” This was one of the questions Julian Bleecker of

The inaugural Emerge at Arizona State University in 2012 included “Immerge,” a performance-art presentation that was part carnival, part theater and part digital wizardry. It featured such characters as The

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