There was thought-provoking article in Wired Magazine July 2008 titled “The End of Science” and discussed how the massive amounts of data is replacing the need for hypothesis, modeling, and testing. Sensors and Web Databases are stored on almost infinite amounts of storage and can be accessed worldwide.

Malick View: If you feel that there was “something in the water” to create an unusually high-maintenance group of students in your class, there would be no need for hypothesis and experimentation, just go to the water utility company in the area and search which chemicals were found in the drinking water for the life spans of the students in your school region. Correlation instead of theory seems to be such the norm, we are no longer trying to speculate big topics such as Global Warming and how InfoTech is going to make our students productive citizens in the future, because the massive amount of data is currently not available.