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* Spreading the word | |||
** creating big conference (like [[http://www.mfoundation.org/UABBA/agenda/ Understanding Aging]] and [[http://www.singinst.org/media/singularitysummit2007 Singularity Summit]]) | |||
** creating visual and video "body of literature" | |||
** popular magazines (Wired, New Yorker, Harpers) | |||
** newspapers | |||
** conceptual pieces in traditional journals | |||
** internet / web | |||
*** cancer complexity wiki merge with SFI wiki? | |||
*** individual blogging | |||
*** create new online journal | |||
** "big ideas" conferences ([[http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/39 TED]], PopTech, and others) | |||
** popular book (ala Tipping Point, Freakonomics, et al) | |||
** public speaking tour | |||
** documentary (ala Inconveniet Truth) | |||
** undergraduate education | |||
* Ideas for catalyzing change | |||
** alternative research institute | |||
** peer review --> decision markets | |||
** creating financial incentives | |||
*** prize models | |||
** maverick funders and self-funders | |||
*** 23andMe / Google | |||
* Lessons from other paradigm shifts | * Lessons from other paradigm shifts | ||
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** working within the system vs. outside and on the margins | ** working within the system vs. outside and on the margins | ||
** providing a better alternative (or hope thereof) is important | ** providing a better alternative (or hope thereof) is important | ||
* Who's missing from this forum? | * Who's missing from this forum? | ||
Revision as of 21:44, 20 May 2008
Changing the Paradigm
- Current shortcomings of science as a whole
- Methodology
- Meta-issues
- Language
- lack of good and shared LEXICON slows understanding and progress:
- what is a "gene"?
- "genome" vs "chromosome"
- is it "noise", "randomness", "heterogeneity", "diversity"?
- METAPHORS affect what actions are taken and what systems are developed
- "war on cancer" leads to "military industrial complex" for cancer
- POLITICAL CORRECTNESS stiffles progress
- the "e" word
- PARADIGMS proscribe and limit what futures are possible
- treatment of disease vs. promotion of health
- taking evolution seriously means looking at the context that evolved for protection and promotion of cancer
- treatment of disease vs. promotion of health
- lack of good and shared LEXICON slows understanding and progress:
- Technology effects
- hammers & nails
- diff between engineered systems and evolved systems
- parodies belie truth: "how biologists learn to fix a radio"; "frog legs"
- scientists are especially susceptible
- speed of technological change
- Financial & political factors
- Fadism (technological, ideological, novelty)
- Pipeline effects
- Healthcare-industrial-governmental complex
- Language
- Spreading the word
- creating big conference (like [Understanding Aging] and [Singularity Summit])
- creating visual and video "body of literature"
- popular magazines (Wired, New Yorker, Harpers)
- newspapers
- conceptual pieces in traditional journals
- internet / web
- cancer complexity wiki merge with SFI wiki?
- individual blogging
- create new online journal
- "big ideas" conferences ([TED], PopTech, and others)
- popular book (ala Tipping Point, Freakonomics, et al)
- public speaking tour
- documentary (ala Inconveniet Truth)
- undergraduate education
- Ideas for catalyzing change
- alternative research institute
- peer review --> decision markets
- creating financial incentives
- prize models
- maverick funders and self-funders
- 23andMe / Google
- Lessons from other paradigm shifts
- what are closest examples?
- how the existing paradigm reacts to attack
- working within the system vs. outside and on the margins
- providing a better alternative (or hope thereof) is important
- Who's missing from this forum?