future of science
Can Social Networks Tackle our Common Equations?
Mon, 09/11/2009 - 9:51am | by Gaell"Can Social Networks Tackle our Common Equations?"
Sustainable development or Sustainomics can be defined as the science that analyzes the equations of our future.
Never before in human history, science based predictions have attracted so much interest and had such important consequences on political decision making.
By and large, Climate Change is the most impressive illustration of this paradigm. The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference will start in just a month in Copenhagen. Negotiators from nearly 180 countries hope to nail down the outline of a plan to provide tens of billions of dollars a year to fight climate change. The Climate change challenges are now a mass-media issue, mobilize hundreds of thousands of people and generate millions of jobs worldwide.
However, science based predictions is a new field that requires new scientific processes to operate.
What would science look like if it were invented today?
Mon, 29/06/2009 - 1:59pm | by danielThis is the first of two parts of a guest post for the Euroscientist, the blog of Euroscience.org. Part two is available here.
The Internet represents an opportunity to change this system, one which has created a 300-year-old, collective long-term memory, into something new and more efficient, perhaps adding in a current, collective short-term working memory at the same time. With new online tools, scientists could begin to share techniques, data and ideas online to the benefit of all parties, and the public at large.
