CHAPTER 1

From Physical to Digital: Fundamental Questions for Radical New Answers

We now realize with special clarity, how much in error are those ­theorists who believe that theory comes inductively from experience.

Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality, 1936

A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from ­experiment to the birth of a theory.

Albert Einstein, from Sunday Times, 1976

This book is being written at the beginning of 2019. As I write, all the major English-speaking newspapers, magazines, TV channels, and blogs try to illustrate the catastrophic events that seem to be shaping the future of the western world: the inability of the European Union and North America to deal with the issue of mass migration, the blindness ...

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