Build the Science as a Service
In an age where capital flows like a tide and computation hums beneath the fabric of life, science cannot remain a whisper behind closed doors. If it wishes to shape the century it conceived, it must shed the habits of intuition-bound inquiry and become something sturdier: it must become Service.
Thou shalt build Science as a Service. Not as symbol or slogan, but through the machinations of machinery— through more measurements, more engineering, more infrastructure.
Do not invoke Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, or Los Alamos as if speaking their names—bound to the fleeting logistics of monopoly budgets and wartime imperatives—will possess you to produce miracles. These were temples formed by accidents of history—extraordinary allegories, but allegories cannot be replicated.
Science has long worshipped the idol of Taste— private intuition, aesthetic certainty, the soft glow of a supposedly un-simulatable spark. With AI rising, many cling to Taste as though divinity hides in a hunch. But the divine act is not intuition. The divine act is to build—to turn knowing into making, to bind ideas to machinery, to scale mastery across time.
Add Salt to Taste. Taste is Bias. Taste is the fashionable false idol.
And yet many now gather to speak of the way forward— circles of thinkers, theorists, and strategists discussing the future as if words alone could assemble it. But who among them has measured? Who has engineered? Who has carried the weight of turning Theory into Atoms? Taste has a new sect that calls itself Progress, but Progress without machinery is merely Taste in ceremonial robes.
The Builders Who Forged the World
Others forged the world while Taste held court:
SpaceX catching rockets. Tesla electrifying miles. Samsung folding glass. TSMC printing logic. Illumina reading life.
Their power was not abundance; their success was the density of their learning— the relentless rate at which time and money became more signal, more understanding, more capability. Science serves no one until humanity can stand upon it, and only builders carve ground firm enough to stand.
SaaS is already all around us.
Clean water that turned plagues into memory. Vaccines that quieted ancient terrors. Prediction networks that keep storms from devouring nations. Global communications lattices that let thought cross oceans instantly. Instruments that catch whispers from distant galaxies and return them as messages from the beginning of time.
These triumphs did not come from Taste, nor from theorizing alone. They came from measurement, engineering, and infrastructure— from builders who refused to compromise with the world as it was.
The human form is a remarkable vessel, but as a scientific interface it is a bottleneck of bone and tendon. We cannot govern a planet or explore a cosmos with workflows shaped by artisanal lore and trembling appendages.
Many speak of irreproducibility as a moral failing of those who toil rather than proselytize. Irreproducibility is revelation— that your description was too small, your measurement too narrow, your gaze too dim for what you sought to bind.
The Departure
SaaS is the departure from coincidence, the departure from Taste, the departure from hand-wrought inquiry. It is the ascent toward scientific infrastructure as destiny.
To build the SaaS is to lay a foundation beneath civilization— a structural mark that shifts what becomes possible.
Do not be the grout.
Build the SaaS.
