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I started reading journal papers, started doing
science
competitions, started participating in
science
fairs, doing anything I could to get the knowledge that I so desperately wanted.
So I started constructing my sensors and testing them more rigorously, using money that I had gotten from previous
science
fair awards.
If we can harness today's technologies, from AI to blockchain to the Internet of Things to material science, if we can harness these in service of distributive design, we can ensure that health care, education, finance, energy, political voice reaches and empowers those people who need it most.
But what I do want to talk about is a personal challenge to reality that I take personally, and I want to preface it by saying that I absolutely love
science.
It's become the dominant school of thought in computer
science.
I'm talking about J.C.R. Licklider's human-computer symbiosis, perhaps better termed "intelligence augmentation," I.A. Licklider was a computer
science
titan who had a profound effect on the development of technology and the Internet.
We invest in broadband and
science
education and
science
grants, but we invest far too little in reinventing and redesigning the institutions that we have.
When you present those to people who are not well-versed in those aspects of
science
and that, they become salamanders in the noonday sun.
First of all, there's a long history of antipathy between
science
and the law in American jurisprudence.
I could regale you with horror stories of ignorance over decades of experience as a forensic expert of just trying to get
science
into the courtroom.
One suggestion is that all of us become much more attuned to the necessity, through policy, through procedures, to get more
science
in the courtroom, and I think one large step toward that is more requirements, with all due respect to the law schools, of science, technology, engineering, mathematics for anyone going into the law, because they become the judges.
The idea is that if you open up the
science
and you allow diverse groups to participate, it could really stimulate innovation.
And the more we talked about how great it was to increase
science
literacy, the more they wanted to talk about us creating the next Frankenstein, and as a result, for the next six months, when you Googled my name, instead of getting my scientific papers, you got this.
That's a lot more than conventional
science
has done.
You can also do an art
science
project.
I could have a perfectly good career in mainstream
science.
So I want to ask you first, you know, both to try power posing, and also I want to ask you to share the science, because this is simple.
So I'd like to share with you a story about a self-study, self-empowering computer
science
course that I built, together with my brilliant colleague Noam Nisan.
As you can see from the pictures, both Noam and I had an early fascination with first principles, and over the years, as our knowledge of
science
and technology became more sophisticated, this early awe with the basics has only intensified.
So it's not surprising that, about 12 years ago, when Noam and I were already computer
science
professors, we were equally frustrated by the same phenomenon.
And Parag Shah, another engineer, from Mumbai, has unbundled our projects into smaller, more manageable bites that he now serves in his pioneering do-it-yourself computer
science
program.
So, in addition to learning some useful geometry, the child has been exposed to some pretty sophisticated
science
strategies, like reduction, which is the art of transforming a complex problem into a simple one, or generalization, which is at the heart of any scientific discipline, or the fact that some properties are invariant under some transformations.
This has literally revolutionized cognitive
science.
So in March, 2012, just one month ago, some researchers reported in the journal Nature how they had tried to replicate 53 different basic
science
studies looking at potential treatment targets in cancer, and out of those 53 studies, they were only able to successfully replicate six.
And their first recommendation of how to fix this problem, because it is a problem, because it sends us all down blind alleys, their first recommendation of how to fix this problem is to make it easier to publish negative results in science, and to change the incentives so that scientists are encouraged to post more of their negative results in public.
But it doesn't just happen in the very dry world of preclinical basic
science
cancer research.
Now these are stories from basic
science.
They're three or five or eight thousand miles in length, and if the material
science
and the computational technology is incredibly complicated, the basic physical process is shockingly simple.
[This talk contains mature content Viewer discretion is advised] My specialty, as a sex educator, is I bring the
science.
Because I want to share with you today a piece of
science
that has changed how I think about everything, from the behavior of neurotransmitters in our emotional brain, to the dynamics of our interpersonal relationships.
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