Networks and Technology Evolution

Networks and Technology Evolution​​
NetSci 2016 Satellite, 
Monday, 30 May 2016, Se​oul, Korea​​

Scientific Evolution in Digitized Books, Modeling, and Future Perspective

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Pan-Jun Kim
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Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Korea


The quest for historically impactful science and technology provides invaluable insight into the innovation dynamics of human society, yet many studies are limited to qualitative and small-scale approaches. Here, we investigate scientific evolution through systematic analysis of a massive corpus of digitized English texts between 1800 and 2008. We developed a mechanistic model to account for the observed results, indicating that slowly-but-commonly adopted science and technology surprisingly tend to have higher fitness than fast-and-commonly adopted ones. Our data analysis combined with mechanistic modeling sheds light on unbiased and quantitative analysis of scientific evolution in society. Here, I will discuss some issue between humankind and technology in the future.
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