The importance of scientific advancement
Disclaimer: this short read I write here is a layman's personal opinion, I am aware that technology and science in general also bring challenges to society but prove to have a huge positive impact in the long term, this is ofcourse yet another opinion and up for review.
Anyway:
Science: the engine of prosperity
It's intertwined in everything we have and do today. Wether you warm up a meal in a microwave oven or the non sticky coating of a frying pan, having better ways to travel or send a picture half the world away originated from a seemingly first obscure unneeded theory in daily life, never knowing that it could produce a spin-off playing an unseparable role in the future.
Science as a weapon
It helps us overcome the challenges that lie before us:
Giving us the means to identify and defend ourselves against climate change, provide mechanical and medical understanding that can prolong, or even better, improve our quality of life, be it life expectancy itself or faster and efficient transportation.
Science as a shield
- To combat misinformation ("fake news" in social media or papers sponsored by multinationals in the others..)
- To scrutinize self proclaimed experts and fanatism.
Interested in helping out?
Sponsoring research projects are commonly done by governments or their counterpart big NGO's be it by monetary grants, donations or voluntary (field) work.
However, individuals like you and me can help speed up the progress of certain projects by volunteering our idle computers and even smartphones and tablets. Helping universities analyze their results with computing power. This is called distributed computing.
A good example of this is BOINC.
It's an application that runs tasks for a wide range of projects that focus on things like fighting diseases, mapping genes or materials for clean water or energy but also more esoteric fields like astrophysics and molecular biology.
Examples are World Community Grid and Rosetta@home.
If all of the above interests you but could use an extra incentive or compensation, you could try your hand on a nobler aspect in the world of cryptocurrency and install for example Gridcoin which rewards you for work done in BOINC, This is by no means required though.
More information and guides how to install can be readily found on their respective sites and communities.
Image credit by Pexels.
Thank you for reading.
thanks 4 sharing
Good post! Keep BOINCing
We need more posts like that here on #gridcoin and #boinc
It's a great way to spread the word ^__^
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great post, we all have to be greatful for science... especially the ingrates of our society, of course
this is really nice from you i like it
Great post, we all gain so much from science but it's cool to know you can contribute as an average person without special training.
These are some interesting thoughts. I've not heard of BOINC, so I'll be looking into that.
I'm currently a graduate student, so I'm involved heavily with scientific research. It's always good to see scientific efforts appreciated on any platform, so thanks for spreading the word.
Are there any particular aspects of science that you enjoy the most?
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