E=MC Blog

June 15, 2004

EinsteinHere’s some­thing to think about: What would it have been like if the great minds of our time main­tained blogs?

I was think­ing about this ear­lier today pon­der­ing the results of a blog if Ein­stein could have used this method to relay his thoughts. As you know, blogs are noth­ing more than a medium to out­put thoughts, the­o­ries and other obser­va­tions, so I believe that geniuses like Galileo or Ein­stein would have uti­lized this form of com­mu­ni­ca­tion to its fullest potential.

These great minds would have left no stone unturned in their quest to bring forth infor­ma­tion to the masses, espe­cially if their method in doing so was by sim­ply fill­ing in a ‘New Entry’ and click­ing Publish.

Sim­ple and instan­ta­neous “mind-blogging”. 

12 comments

Nice work on your thoughts Erik. :)

by bud on June 15, 2004 at 4:25 pm. Reply #

Inter­est­ing con­cept, though my ini­tial thought is: They wouldn’t get _anything_ done. They’d just end up link brows­ing all day long.

by Michael on June 15, 2004 at 4:37 pm. Reply #

Um, hate to be picky, but it’s E=mc^2 :D

by Jarek Piórkowski on June 15, 2004 at 4:52 pm. Reply #

Ooh, cool! Smi­leys! ;) :P

by Jarek Piórkowski on June 15, 2004 at 4:53 pm. Reply #

I was think­ing about this ear­lier today pon­der­ing the results of a blog if Ein­stein could have used this method to relay his thoughts.

Too much… bite-sized… knowl­edge bombs! Argh!

by max on June 15, 2004 at 5:22 pm. Reply #

Michael: Haha. You’re prob­a­bly right. Makes me won­der, what links would be on their favorites list?

Jarek: I was gen­tly mak­ing a pun of sorts, by remov­ing the ^2. Maybe it didn’t con­vey itself as well. Also, I agree, smi­leys are the way to go.

Max: It’s like an intel­lec­tual brain freeze. Maybe, as Michael men­tioned, they would be too pre­oc­cu­pied with link brows­ing. Although, Ein­stein could have made great use of MathML.

by kartooner on June 15, 2004 at 5:40 pm. Reply #

Incred­i­bly thought-provoking.

by Colin D. Devroe on June 15, 2004 at 6:44 pm. Reply #

Michael, i think you have it right! :)

The good thing about weblogs is that you can right some­thing and get some feed­back in a few days, maybe in a few months if you’re not linked that much at all. Unlike in the past, great minds were used to trav­el­ling around the world just to dis­cuss ideas with their colleagues.

by markku on June 16, 2004 at 3:30 am. Reply #

Well he might have inad­ver­tently pub­lished the code for the atom bomb or some­thing. What a fas­ci­nat­ing ques­tion Kar­tooner. More locally what would hap­pen if cur­rent lead­ing fig­ures began blog­ging. We could have : Nel­son Man­dela : The long walk to val­i­da­tion; Tony Blair: The hand of his­tory; and who knows what. A lot of fun. ;)

by Root on June 16, 2004 at 7:55 am. Reply #

I’m not a sci­ence his­torean, but aren’t sci­en­tists fiercely pro­tec­tive of their work until everything’s been proven and patents issued/prizes awarded, etc? I’d think most of the them would freak over secu­rity issues on the internet…

by hass on June 16, 2004 at 1:27 pm. Reply #

Yes, but the occas­sional thought on “quan­tum physics” or the “evo­lu­tional the­ory” would be thought pro­vok­ing, much like this arti­cle was (or is).

by kartooner on June 16, 2004 at 3:26 pm. Reply #

Whoa man, that’s deep. And I agree with you fully.

by Chad on June 17, 2004 at 10:19 am. Reply #

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