Over the past few hundred years, we, the human race, have experienced an unparalleled explosion of knowledge.  Although our advances due to swarm intelligence have been growing since the beginning of life on the planet, during the recent past, knowledge of the natural world has increased exponentially. The start of this rapid increase in the growth of knowledge can traced to the scientific revolution.  It was the spark that ignited a complete redefinition of the natural world and how we interact with it – the ignition of a never-ending search for reality and truth. It was a paradigm shift in the truest sense, where the old way of viewing the world gave way to a new method of thinking, where only provable, testable, and replicable facts mattered.  This new approach to thinking has transformed the world. More than that, it has transformed the human race to a position no other life has ever held.  We have become stewards of all life on the...(Read Full Post)