2004 : WHAT'S YOUR LAW?
Physicist, Institute of Advanced Study; Author, Disturbing the Universe; Maker of Patterns
Dyson's Law of Obsolescence
If you are writing history and try to keep it up-to-date up to a time T before the present, it will be out-of-date within a time T after the present.
This law applies also to scientific review articles.
( Thanks for including the Doctor Moreau quote, which describes us very well.
