Progress Is Recursive
<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">Kevin Kelly's list of recursive scientific advances: </span></p>
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<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">2000 BC - First text indexes </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">200 BC - Cataloged library (at Alexandria) </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">1000 AD - Collaborative encyclopedia </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">1590 - Controlled experiment (Roger Bacon) </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">1600 - Laboratory </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">1609 - Telescopes and microscopes </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">1650 - Society of experts </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">1665 - Repeatability (Robert Boyle) </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">1665 - Scholarly journals </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">1675 - Peer review </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">1687 - Hypothesis/prediction (Isaac Newton) </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">1920 - Falsifiability (Karl Popper) </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">1926 - Randomized design (Ronald Fisher) </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">1937 - Controlled placebo </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">1946 - Computer simulation </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">1950 - Double blind experiment </span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;">1962 - Study of scientific method (Thomas Kuhn) </span></p>
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