Which field of science do you consider the most important for the *future*

[SS-18 ICBM]

Mathematics, everything, it is so intertwined you can't really pick out one, if I did it would be computing

Math is a mere tool.

I'm tempted to say biology/chemistry, but who knows what the exotic physics of now becomes tomorrow?

 

[dido]

Mathematics does not require scientific method.
And science does not need scientific method it just makes it an order of magnitude more efficent.
Mathematics is used in almost all scientific advances.

reasoning and logic is used in almost every single human advances, science included. I guess philosophy would be the most important science then?

 

[Kal'thzar]

Science can be advanced without following a testing a hypothesis etc.
Science could advance in a rambling way it would just take ten or a hundred times longer.

Can you give examples? I'm not sure I'm following you (checking your grammar would help)

 

[Enkidu Warrior]

[Kurzweil] Biology will be enormously important over the next few decades while we figure out how our brains work but biology will be abolished shortly thereafter. [/Kurzweil]

Seriously, I'll go with the scientific discipline that deals with the ultimate fate of the universe.

 

[Mise]

I voted physics on the basis that it is the field under which revolutionary new energy sources are most likely to be researched. Of course, I could easily have chosen chemistry, on the same basis.

 

[Bartleby]

I chose chemistry for professional reasons.

note to self: go back to the lab

 

[Narz]

I think the top one is a glacier and the bottom is the resultant lake from it melting, which if you think about it is an improvement.

Not for the scores of people below the glacier formerly helped irrigate.

Anyway, whichever gets us off this planet faster. My bet is on physics.

Where do you want to go that's better than here?

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Biology is applied chemistry, chemistry is applied physics and physics is applied mathematics.
However since math is in itself too abstract and only a tool for real science I vote physics.

 

[Ramius75]

biology...

i cant wait for the longevity serum...

 

[PeteAtoms]

Vote: Chemistry

Has applications in biology and plastics, renewable energy, etc.

I'm on the edge for all of these honestly, someone who cared enough could convince me that any of them could be the most important for the future.

 

[Ayatollah So]

[Kurzweil] Biology will be enormously important over the next few decades while we figure out how our brains work but biology will be abolished shortly thereafter. [/Kurzweil]

Seriously, I'll go with the scientific discipline that deals with the ultimate fate of the universe.

This. Biology (more specifically neuropsychology) and AI. I'm hoping biology won't be abolished...

 

[Takhisis]

I chose chemistry for professional reasons.

note to self: go back to the lab

Does the lab still exist or has it been dissolved by the product of an experminet gone wild?

biology...

i cant wait for the longevity serum...

So, we live in an overcrowded world, and you want people to live even longer?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

[Kurzweil] Biology will be enormously important over the next few decades while we figure out how our brains work but biology will be abolished shortly thereafter. [/Kurzweil]

Does the singularity replace the ecosystem or something? I might have missed that part.

 

[Narz]

I personally don't see why everyone's so orgasmic to get rid of their flesh & blood bodies & live in their computers personally.

And what about all the beings who might actually enjoy the physical world (nature, air, water, nature, movement)?

Fortunately, I don't think our best minds will be as keen as the singularitarians to abandon the world & hide in machines from the mess we've made playing 2nd Life & having virtual sex 'till their batteries run down.

 

[Fifty]

TWO WORDS: GERIATRIC PODIATRY

 

[illram]

What about biochem. I voted biology for that reason.

 

[Duo]

I am a physicist, but I think biology is more likely to have a large impact on our day to day lives in the short to mid term future.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I personally don't see why everyone's so orgasmic to get rid of their flesh & blood bodies & live in their computers personally.

Flesh is weak and prone to failure. Plastic and metal are awesome. And we don't have to live in a computer. A robot body would be nice.

 

[Narz]

Flesh is weak and prone to failure. Plastic and metal are awesome. And we don't have to live in a computer. A robot body would be nice.

Humans last a helluvalot longer than most mechanical crap. And we can self-heal. Also I've yet to meet a robot dame that got me going.

 

[Takhisis]

Haven't you watched anything Terminator-related?