New Activity
Play Fill in the Blanks Game
1 . A scenario is a tool for ordering one ? s perceptions about ____________________ future environments in which today ? s decisions might be played out .
2 . We imagine that the new ideas and discoveries in ____________________ , biology , ____________________ , and mathematics are leading to a revolutionary ? moment ? where we will reconceptualize and reperceive reality . We have been here before .
3 . Scientific advances often rely on the ____________________ of new tools to open new arenas for exploration .
4 . Today new scientific ____________________ are leading to profound insights into the realities of nature .
5 . The most important new tool , however , has been the ____________________ . It has given us the ability to create remarkably faithful ____________________ of phenomena like turbulent flow and complex chemical reactions . It has allowed us to study very large numbers of ____________________ , millions instead of dozens .
6 . The Internet , of course , was primarily a tool for accelerating scientific communication . It used to be that the ____________________ of research involved a long cycle of peer review , publishing , challenging , retesting , publishing , and so on . It was a process that took months or even years . Today an ____________________ is conducted in the morning , and the results can be on the ____________________ by lunchtime .
7 . Part of what makes one imagine that a ____________________ is coming is that fundamental changes are developing across many disciplines . Here the focus is on physics , ____________________ , and chemistry , but many others could be covered . Furthermore , they are feeding on each other .
8 . We would have remarkable new capabilities to ____________________ new devices and new materials in entirely ecologically benign ways . We might even have new clean ____________________ sources .