On 9 Nov 2010, the New York Times ran an interesting online feature “What’s Next in Science?”. This series of article includes predictions from a number of scientists in different fields as to what they believe will be the most significant developments of the next few years. One of these articles is by Steven Strogatz of Cornell University, who has contributed semi-popular articles in the Times before.

In this piece, he starts out with the statement

We’re going to see scientific results that are correct, that are predictive, but are without explanation. We may be able to do

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