Science in the 21st Century is the title of a conference being organized by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics from 8 to 12 September 2008. From the conference website:
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.
Sabine Hossenfelder, Timo Hannay, Cameron Neylon and Bora Zivkovic are among the Nature Networkers who are speaking — the programme is here.
(I previously posted about this conference at the Publishing in the New Millennium forum.)