A meditation on how intellectual orthodoxy silences discovery—from Bruno’s pyre to Chomsky’s lecture hall—and why the courage to consider the improbable is the first condition of truth.
While the public argues about chatbots and digital art, artificial intelligence has quietly crossed a threshold: it no longer merely assists research — it now makes discoveries of its own. From protein folding to mathematics, weather, and medicine, the pace of knowledge has shifted from human time to machine time. The question is no longer whether AI will transform science, but whether humanity can still keep pace with the knowledge it creates.