Application And Commercialization Of Post-Science

The Infinite Spreadsheet is a Permanent Standard for financial analyses, which include valuation, planning, and decision making. Furthermore, the current finite spreadsheet for financial analyses should be considered illegal, and with the availability of the software for the Infinite Spreadsheet, its use should be immediately terminated because it does not disclose the material information beyond the finite time. On the other hand, the Infinite Spreadsheet provides full disclosure and, thus, full accountability of future financial expectations. Academically, the Infinite Spreadsheet quantifies the current qualitative supply and demand economic model. All the textbooks in economics should be modified so that economics can have a quantitative foundation. Generally, the solution to value in post-science is the foundation for social science and will guide human civilization into the Age of Social Science.

The Permanent Software demonstrates the feasibility of complete automation and identifies DNA as a Permanent Software. While physical and social sciences deal with laws of nature, which must be obeyed by materials and humans, life science deals with creation, whose condition is permanence, for a temporary entity will sooner of later become valueless. Thus, while all the creations of nature displays the quality of permanent existence and are completely automated, all the man-made objects have temporary existence and are partially automated. The secret of complete automation is disclosed in the patent on Permanent Software, which puts computer and life science on the same theoretical foundation. The value of the Permanent Software, as calculated in the patent on the Infinite Spreadsheet, is from three to infinite times greater than the value of the corresponding temporary software. Today, nearly 90% of all the software budget goes to the updating or maintenance of legacy systems, especially, those for COBOL. In the not-too-distant future, the same fate, which has plagued COBOL, will befall software developed on the Microsoft temporary software standards. The real cost of the temporary software should include the cost of updating to future standards. From the experience of COBOL, this cost could be prohibitive. As addictive drugs provide their users with temporary pleasure, the temporary software addicts its users to its temporary friendliness and should be banned, if its cost turns out to be prohibitively large, or should have its manufacturers shouldering the future cost of updating. In general, many things, such as drugs, temporary software, or even nuclear energy, could appear beneficial when calculated with the finite spreadsheet, but are really harmful, by the Infinite Spreadsheet. In conclusion, rational decisions must be made based on the Infinite Spreadsheet.

Jumpulse, a post-Newtonian concept responsible for robot touch, is a major contribution to physical science by post-science, which will put an end to the Age of Science characterized by irrational decisions and temporary creations. For over three hundred years, no one has discovered that Newtonian mechanics cannot explain the mechanism of touch, or how two colliding objects do not bounce off each other after the impact. Recently, it has been realized that robots cannot touch and spacecraft has difficulty docking. The ability for humans to touch or for professional tennis players to keep a ball on a racket for a prolong period of time is explained by the concept of jumpulse, a word coined by Ta-You Wu to denote a sudden change of force, as impulse is a sudden change of momentum. To honor Dr. Wu, who passed away before his contribution is widely recognized, Post-Science Institute has recommended that the unit of jumpulse be wu to indicate weight unit, whereby one wu is equal to one newton. Newton defined force to be a push or pull. According to Newtonian mechanics, push is generally impossible because two colliding or contacting objects will bounce off each other. All the textbooks on mechanics should be modified to include the concept of jumpulse, which will be necessary in the construction of the Self-manufactured General Purpose Robot with the ability to come into contact with its environment and will be needed to eventually replace all human physical labors.

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