alt Hacker NewsI suggest "Catching crumbs from the table" by Ted Chiang. Very short piece published in Nature (2000) and well worth a read. Depicts a scenario where modified humans produce science beyond ordinary scientists' comprehension.
I suggest "Catching crumbs from the table" by Ted Chiang. Very short piece published in Nature (2000) and well worth a read. Depicts a scenario where modified humans produce science beyond ordinary scientists' comprehension.
This is a theme in Blindsight by Peter Watts as well.
In that setting, field experts working at the bleeding edge are so advanced that non-experts literally can't understand what they're saying at all. So there's a whole class of specialists, "synthesists", that specialize in gaining approximate understanding of the experts' work for the purpose of communicating it to outsiders—perhaps wrongly, according to the expert at least, but hopefully more productively vs the unmediated version.