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Melanie Swan [email protected] January 9, 2014 Vieques, Puerto Rico Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga Science and Society How can big-picture science thinking help society and vice-versa?
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We are in an exciting new era of scientific discovery with a greatly expanded range of possibilities due to big data, computation, and crowd participation
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Melanie [email protected]
January 9, 2014
Vieques, Puerto Rico
Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Science and Society
How can big-picture science thinking help society and vice-versa?
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World-Shaping Science and Society Trends
Image: http://www.sydmead.com
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3 billion new Internet Users by 2020
3Source: Peter Diamandis, Singularity University, July 2013
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Impact: Majority of worldwide population starting to access and self-enable with science and technology
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Global Population: Growing and Aging
4Source: UN Habitat – 2010
http://avondaleassetmanagement.blogspot.com/2012/05/japan-aging-population.html
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Over 50% worldwide population in 2008 5 billion in 2030 (estimated)
Human Urbanization: Living in Cities
5Source: Copenhagen Pollution Levels, MIT Senseable City Lab
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Megacity Growth Rates
Megacity: (>10 million inhabitants
and ~2,000/km2
density)
Source: Wikipedia
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Wireless Internet-of-Things (IOT)
Source: Swan, M. Sensor Mania! The Internet of Things, Objective Metrics, and the Quantified Self 2.0. J Sens Actuator Netw (2012) 1(3), 217-253.
Image credit: Cisco
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12 billion Internet-connected devices 2016
8Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/growth-in-the-internet-of-things-2013-10?IR=T1Vinge, V. Who’s Afraid of First Movers? The Singularity Summit 2012
3 year doubling cycle
Usual computing gadgetry (e.g.; smartphones) and everyday objects: cars, food, clothing, appliances, buildings, roads
Embedded chips in 5% of human-constructed objects (2012)1
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Annual data creation in zettabytes (10007 bytes) 90% of the world’s data created in the last 2 years
Defining Trend of Current Era: Big Data
Source: Mary Meeker, Internet Trends, http://www.kpcb.com/insights/2013-internet-trendshttp://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/healthcare-leveraging-big-data-paper.pdf
2 year doubling cycle
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Expanded Concept of Conduct of Science
1. Larger Scope of Activity Computational complement to every field
Discovery speed-ups due to modeling, simulation, and prediction Shift from characterization to pro-active construction in tight
feedback loops enabling new fields: synthetic biology
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Experimental
ObservationalTheoretical Computational Applied
Source: Kido, Swan, et al. Systematic evaluation of personal genome services. Nature: Journal of Human Genetics (2013) 58, 734–741.
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Expanded Concept of Conduct of Science
2. Larger Scale of Activity Harnessing technology-driven crowd models
Faster, lower-cost, orders-of-magnitude scale-up (permutation) The crowd as big data processing nodes
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Data Collection
Data Analysis
Institutional Research
Peer Studies
Quantified Self
DIY Community Data Competitions
Serious Gaming 3D Bioprinting
Crowdsourced Participation
Citizen Science Organized
Source: Swan, M. Crowdsourced Health Research Studies. J Med Internet Res (2012) 14(2):e46.
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Information Connects Science and Society
Wholly different relation to information Formerly everything signal, now 99% noise Exception, variability, probability, patterns, prediction
New kinds of information Longitudinal baseline measures, normal deviation patterns,
contingency adjustments, anomaly, emergence Multiple data analysis paradigms: time, frequency, episode, cycle
New kinds of models supplementing scientific method Machine learning, hierarchical representation, neural networks,
information visualization
12Source: Swan, M. The Quantified Self. Big Data (2013) 1(2): 85-99.
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Sense of Ourselves as Information Generators
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Summary: Science and Society
New era of scientific discovery with a greatly expanded range of possibilities due to big data, computation, and crowd participation
Our attunement to technology as an enabling background helps us see the possibilities for the true meaningfulness of our being - Heidegger
14Source: Heidegger, M. The Question Concerning Technology (1954).
Melanie [email protected]
January 9, 2014
Vieques, Puerto Rico
Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Science and Society
Thank you!
