The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics will be hosting a quite unique conference next September:

Science in the 21st Century

The organizers are Sabine Hossenfelder, Michael Nielsen and Lee Smolin.

The outline states:

Times are changing. In the earlier days, we used to go to the library, today we search and archive our papers online. We have collaborations per email, hold telephone seminars, organize virtual networks, write blogs, and make our seminars available on the internet. Without any doubt, these technological developments influence the way science is done, and they also redefine our relation to the society we live in. Information exchange and management, the scientific community, and the society as a whole can be thought of as a triangle of relationships, the mutual interactions in which are becoming increasingly important.

The program seems diverse and broad enough; I’m curious about outcome of this conference.