> A must read!
>
> http://research.microsoft.com/towards2020science/downloads.htm
> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7083/index.html
> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7083/edsumm/e060323-01.html
>
> This week's forward-looking science and computing special takes 2020
> as the iconic future date. If the rate of progress in the computing
> industry is any guide, within 15 years nano-scale circuits will be a
> reality. And 2020 is now seen as possible for what was unimaginable
> until recently, the practical quantum computer. Another imminent
> revolution is 'smart dust': tiny sensors that monitor everything
> everywhere. Stephen Muggleton welcomes the data bonanza generated by
> automation, but argues that science is an essentially human activity
> and that progress brings its dangers. Hugo-award-winning novelist
> Vernor Vinge ponders a future we can barely imagine. Alexander Szalay
> and Jim Gray argue that we are nearing the limit of what one research
> group can achieve in data handling. Roger Brent and Jehoshuah Bruck
> ask what computer science can contribute to biological research and
> Ian Foster reviews the two-way relationship between science and
> computing.
>
> ...
>
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