You write, "What implications, I wondered, does such a prediction have for other sciences?"
And, what would a substantial acceleration of the scientific process mean for society at large?
As example, let's think of our science driven culture as being like a machine with many parts, with the whole being only as strong as the weakest part, which would be us, the average citizen.
That is, what would our science driven culture look like if we thought about it like an engineer would? An engineer would look for the single points of failure, and try to fix them. And if they couldn't fix a single point of failure, that becomes a limiting factor for the operation of the machine as a whole.
You write, "What implications, I wondered, does such a prediction have for other sciences?"
And, what would a substantial acceleration of the scientific process mean for society at large?
As example, let's think of our science driven culture as being like a machine with many parts, with the whole being only as strong as the weakest part, which would be us, the average citizen.
That is, what would our science driven culture look like if we thought about it like an engineer would? An engineer would look for the single points of failure, and try to fix them. And if they couldn't fix a single point of failure, that becomes a limiting factor for the operation of the machine as a whole.