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A thirty-year-old article which reads like it could have been written today.


Try this one from the same publication. Written in 1945 and reads like it could be written in the future http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma...


From that link: "He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge."

I've been meaning to write a book. I accidentally became a bit of an expert in an area that is not very accessible. I started doing it in the 1990's and find it's still not accessible and not taught until at least the masters level. I'd like to do a book that brings it down to a more normal level and pull it out of the hands of the PhD - there is no real reason for that. Need some time and motivation, but I recommend anyone who has expertise to write a book or blog and try to simplify complex subjects. Wikipedia is often the opposite, with technical subjects dominated by equations and complex math - that's fine for advanced people but does nothing to help anyone get started.


You could start by improving Wikipedia.


>> You could start by improving Wikipedia.

No. I don't have sources for whats in my brain. I also tried updating Wikipedia - a simple matrix equation for the Clarke Transform. It's supposed to be 2x3 matrix converting from a 3d space to a 2d one. They had the 3x3 form which adds an additional element, but AFAIK that is not the form Clarke used. I fixed it, it got changed back later.


That's a bit of a problem. You can get involved in Wikipedia culture, if you want to. I think the talk page of an article is where you hash those things out (and don't forget to add sources). (Or just publish elsewhere, if that's too much work.)


When I started reading it, I actually thought it was written recently! I didn't realize the truth until he mentioned the tuition for Dartmouth Tuck...




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