DML2014: Ignite Talk - Ariel Waldman
4The Hacker's Guide to the Galaxy
Don't panic: the next big science revolution isn't just for asteroid miners or CERN scientists. There has been a considerable movement in the last several years to make science more open between scientific disciplines and to the perceived "public". But simply making science open -- by placing datasets, research, and materials online and using open source licensing -- is only half the battle. Science should be disruptively accessible -- empowering people from a variety of different backgrounds to explore, participate in, and build new ways of interacting with and contributing to science. Just as science fiction has often shown the way to future inventions, the act of hacking is now generating prototypes that act as footholds for future explorations, discoveries and epiphanies in science.