i.shui.tech

I had a daydream yesterday. I was standing in a typical grade school science classroom. I told the students that the most powerful scientific instrument used today in research laboratories was also in their classroom. Hint: It’s not your brain. Answer: It’s the desktop computer.

OK…well, perhaps it’s a bit more than just the desktop computer. The desktop computer must be linked to the internet. Then it becomes a very powerful tool. To pursure science is to collect data. And scientist have an enormous thirst for data. As digital instrumentation has evolved, so has the sheer volume of data. In fact, so much of it that it becomes overwhelming. Bioinformatics makes sense of that data. And the results are at once mind blowing and beautiful.

Science has been and will continue to be the new frontier of our lives. Every modern man-made thing around us has been touched by science. From concept to development to construction, science plays a role. Science is ubiquitous. Technology is a direct product of science. The implication is obvious: It doesn’t matter wether you decide to become a scientist or not, or even wether you even like math and science, you will be touched by it. The educational message should also be obvious.

~ by Quyen on October 29, 2005.