What is SciFlies and what does it mean? 

Yes, SciFlies is an enabler of societal problem solving and an expander of human knowledge. It is also an innovation accelerator, but it is also more; it is a test tube and experiment for democratic science.

What exactly is SciFlies, it depends on who is asking. The effect or meaning will change whether the question comes from a citizen or a scientist or government representative or from SciFlies itself.

Adding all those interests together, however, and SciFlies creates a deeper role and greater impact for science in society.

What does SciFlies mean? Rather than describe its elements with exacting detail, we opted for short ideas that can be expanded upon in the mind of the reader. The elements can be good, bad or neutral and almost certainly some are debatable points. The entire lengthy listing is what SciFlies “means” or “is” currently, but that will only change as the SciFlies experiment unfolds.  But what is apparent is the importance of SciFlies and the relation it can have with science and society over time.

What does SciFlies mean, is, or do:

 (144 ways to view SciFlies)

1. Science itself has no inner wisdom which makes choices to society (and the future) obvious. Choices should be made freely with the counsel of scientists and by the people as a whole…
2. Enables citizens to be a part and be more influential than they are today…
3. SciFlies allows more citizen Control, Guiding and Shaping of innovation…
4. Citizens can recapture some of the Power…
5. Scientists as Citizens and Citizens as Scientists...
6. Re-connects the public discourse back into Science…
7. Further opens Societal Science to Scrutiny…
8. Scientist and Laypersons become Responsible for Open Dialogue…
9. Citizens can be part of the Science “Mount Olympus”…
10. Citizens can be more literate in the major mover of society…
11. Focus attention on areas of innovation that need help…
12. Requires that Science and Scientists try to be understood…
13. Helps tease out effective communication of science…
14. It fosters not only PhDs but intelligent people…
15. It will increase the Eureka Moments…
16. It will increase Human Capital with enhanced innovation…
17. Citizens can be Part of the Science “Priesthood”…
18. It forms the “People Science Foundation”…
19. Citizens can be a Modern Day Vannevar Bush…
20. Citizens can be part of where the action in society is: energy, medicine, etc…
21. Donors can help control the “politics of professional science”
22. It can help create a more efficient science funding process…
23. It can fund an Einstein or Galileo…
24. It can inject more independence not dependence into science…
25. Big science is not necessarily great science: fund “small” science…
26. It helps organize scientists and citizen…
27. SciFlies minimizes the R&D administration and housekeeping, by funding directly…
28. It energizes the “think” factory…
29. It helps create a “peoples” lab…
30. Globalization and resource demand puts pressure for more SciFlies supported innovation…
31. It supports that an investment in a PhD in science will pay itself back many time over…
32. Let the government fund BIG science…
33. Citizens take a seat on the intellectual expedition into the unknown…
34. It will help create spin outs and jobs…
35. What is the value to society of any science research area?  You help answer that…
36. You help Increase the odds for breakthroughs…
37. Place your research money on the long shot…
38. You add to a more balance control of science…
39. You can make an impact on your fellow citizens…
40. Help create a deeper market for and of science and technology…
41. SciFlies is independence for the scientists and for the public…
42. Increase the value of scientist in society, think beyond sports stars and rock stars…
43. SciFlies as social responsibility…
44. Is a translator for the language and specialization of science…
45. Helps explain…
46. Is a bridge from congress to the people…
47. Helps minimize government bureaucracy…
48. You can make science and the world never the same, again…
49. Create a feedstock for the innovation pipeline…
50. Help create a magnet for the innovators in society…
51. SciFlies is anti-secrecy, open transparent science…
52. Be a micro program manager…
53. Be the conscience of science…
54. Influence Policy through your directed $...
55. Spur on the power of science…
56. Help make celebrity-scientists…
57. Help bring science out from the sanctuary…
58. Help create New Industries…
59. Help make future employment for your kids…
60. Help reduce threats from nature or errant mankind…
61. Help influence the direction of science: keep the beast tamed…
62. If global warming and climate control is the new nuclear bomb, help keep the science free…
63. SciFlies can educate and enlighten…
64. Take the power to act…
65. You make new Science History…
66. Help create a relationship with your scientist…
67. Help the US lead the globe in the new style of science…
68. Do more with your taxes…
69. The US is best suited to lead in the direction of global science, let’s act that way…
70. Increase your emotional intelligence, through intelligent donations…
71. Help the “little guy”…
72. Help reduce the “political science”…
73. Scientific Citizens are better for society…
74. You provide scientists with a “voice”, your voice…
75. SciFlies promotes the “data driven, objective and independent way of science in this partisan…
76. Enable scientists as a critical resource for society…
77. Open up the opportunity for public debate…
78. Keep scientists responsible…
79. Democratic Science: In a democracy the ultimate answer to where the science ship should go is a question that rests with the people…
80. A better world is one that has both scientist and citizen working together…
81. Influence science before it makes it into the market…
82. SciFlies as economic offense…
83. Science as security power…
84. Draw a scientist out from their specialized field, and from specialization…
85. Help scientist accept individual social responsibility for his/her work…
86. Help create feedback and enable scientists to the view of the consequences of their research…
87. Whole science projects, which are not specialized, are perfect for SciFlies…
88. Make a super star scientist happen…
89. Open up a part of society that is normally closed…
90. Create a new breed of scientist: articulated scientist-citizen…
91. Allow a forum for scientist to speak about the relevance and consequence of their work, and dispel confusion…
92. Help accelerate our ability to combat the harmful slide of nature…
93. Create independent, scientists, not political scientists, who research according to what party is dishing what funding…
94. Change the nature of science/scientist and the press: “Scientific local press”: Provide another channel of communication to the public (your followers) beyond scientists and the media/press…
95. Create a public response on important issues…
96. SciFlies fosters Science Literacy…
97. Allows scientists to spread the “gospel’ of science…
98. Get guidance, opinion and mood from scientists on important issues…
99. See if you can help create “common sense” science…
100. Join expert and enthusiast as a team...
101. Inject other fields of creativity (music, poetry, art) into science flow…
102. Path to your political voice through your investment…
103. Act as an independent “advisory body” to the science project and scientist…
104. Challenge the use of public money for R&D…
105. SciFlies as advice giver/feedback to government agencies and the science and technology committee…
106. We are an evolution of the relation of congress to science…
107. Everybody has an opinion, not everyone takes action, donate and propel forward….
108. A Scientific Advisory Board manned by the people…
109. If you have a need for politics, then you can be a “political citizen-scientist”
110. SciFlies is the penetration of the internet further into science dynamics…
111. Help promote/gain recognition for your scientist and his/her voice to advise the
112. politicians…
113. Help promote scientists in government…
114. A peoples “Office of Science and Technology Policy” (i.e. advice into the Executive Office)…
115. Can be a public advisor to the actual OSTP…
116. SciFlies is a culture changer: science in culture…
117. He who controls the purse controls the flow…
118. The scientist as artisan and the micro-donor as benefactor…
119. SciFlies- open to all – small dollars to large- representative of the people…
120. A barometer for Science…
121. A Trinity System: SciFlies-Gov’t-Science Community (people-gov’t-scientists)…
122. Your tax dollars, you can choose where in R&D they go, direct and in control…
123. SciFlies a buffer to the political winds…
124. Fund both vetted and high risk projects…
125. Bottom up approach working with the top down…
126. An insurance premium against uncertainty…
127. Directly donate: reduce bureaucratic fat in research and foundations…
128. Helps further public trust in science…
129. Gauge the social impact of science…
130. Your actions will impact science and foreign policy…
131. Fund fore-site projects that provide data for larger projects and programs..
132. SciFlies as invention/innovation between science and forcing change in politics…
133. You the donor provides over the horizon vision that you think this is where we are/should be heading…
134. Science is the substratum upon which tomorrow’s technology is built…
135. Participate in the science/technology wave, don’t get drowned by it…
136. Make science in the service of society…
137. Help shape and define what science means...
138. Help create science with value and science with a human centered focus…
139. Participate in your own small way as a contribution to the non-integrated national planning of science/tech…
140. If the People =you and your progeny.  Participate for you and your future generations…
141. Your participation is a reward, play a role. Don’t be condemned to intellectual serfdom and blind acquiescence…
142. Science researchers/teams are global, so enable global science- beyond borders…
143. Contribute to the furthering of the sociology of science and the relation of science to society…
144. Influence science toward human compassion and not simply technical achievement