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Try this one from the same publication. Written in 1945 and reads like it could be written in the future http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma...


From that link: "He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge."

I've been meaning to write a book. I accidentally became a bit of an expert in an area that is not very accessible. I started doing it in the 1990's and find it's still not accessible and not taught until at least the masters level. I'd like to do a book that brings it down to a more normal level and pull it out of the hands of the PhD - there is no real reason for that. Need some time and motivation, but I recommend anyone who has expertise to write a book or blog and try to simplify complex subjects. Wikipedia is often the opposite, with technical subjects dominated by equations and complex math - that's fine for advanced people but does nothing to help anyone get started.


You could start by improving Wikipedia.


>> You could start by improving Wikipedia.

No. I don't have sources for whats in my brain. I also tried updating Wikipedia - a simple matrix equation for the Clarke Transform. It's supposed to be 2x3 matrix converting from a 3d space to a 2d one. They had the 3x3 form which adds an additional element, but AFAIK that is not the form Clarke used. I fixed it, it got changed back later.


That's a bit of a problem. You can get involved in Wikipedia culture, if you want to. I think the talk page of an article is where you hash those things out (and don't forget to add sources). (Or just publish elsewhere, if that's too much work.)




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