Making Books

This video makes me wonder how, although technology has innumerable benefits, some aspects of culture will be lost if we don't retain at least some working knowledge of older technologies:

Big Science and Sociology

I highly recommend this video featuring Dirk Helbing, a sociologist and erstwhile physicist who is (along with others) attempting to create a CERN-like society-simulating project for the social sciences by combining information from large data sets with simulated models of complex social systems: