Institute For The Future

Conference on the future of social science

One of the things I've started paying more attention to since starting the X2 Project are announcements for interesting conferences that deal with some aspect of the future of science. There's an interesting-looking workshop this summer on "Challenges and Visions in the Social Sciences" at ETH Zurich:<p/>

 

the workshop aims at identifying future trends in the social sciences, and problems that will have to be addressed. We want to come up with visionary ideas of what will be the important topics over the next 10 or 20 years, and try to formulate a list of hard, ambitious, and important problems to be addressed by collaborative, international research projects.

 

To some degree, of course, every scientific conference is concerned with the future of science, just as every decision we make is a bet about the future turning out one way rather than another. But some are more explicitly attuned to the future than others.<p/>