About
I make a case for slow science that focuses not on the exploitation of land, labour and the environment, but on knowledge for its own sake. While modern science over the last century has been aided heavily by its promise of future exploitation (its "usefulness") it has also opened unimaginable windows of our minds, with a large fraction of interesting science being "useless". I argue that science should not viewed as a "service provider" for exploitative growth, but rather be embraced as a fundamental human endeavour. Decoupling science from exploitation is the first step towards a sustainable science practice.
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- CERN
- Department
- TH institutes
- Speaker
- Sumati Surya
- Year
- 2022
- Language
- English
- Source
- CERN
- Licence
- CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
- Attribution
- © CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
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