100 x Science: Seven questions that will change the world

With the event "Seven questions that will change the world" we aim to take a well-meaning look at what lies ahead. We want to play at imagining what science will be like in ten, twenty, fifty years' time... What will it have to face? What challenges will it have to take on? What capacities will we be able to achieve? We are going to try to describe the future as realistically as possible. But, as we have already said, we are not going to succeed. If the history of science and technological development shows us anything, it is that the smart thing to do is to refrain from trying to predict anything. New disruptive technologies will emerge, paradigms will change, seemingly immovable foundations will fall, ideas that nobody imagined will emerge and unexpected discoveries will be made... or perhaps none of this will happen. The only thing that is certain is that the horizon looks worrying. That there are things that must be changed, and that science and technology must help us to do so. To lead the way. But to do so, we must listen to those who know. And this is what we are going to do. Eight expert voices will speak today about the science of the future. They will try to answer seven key questions that will mark the path of what is to come, of the future that awaits us. And all this wrapped in music that emerges from the most traditional and classical past to the present. Art of always for the science and technology of the future. "Seven questions that will change the world" (The state of the "art" of the science of the future) is part of 100xCiencia.7, the annual meeting of the SOMMa alliance that brings together the scientific community of the Severo Ochoa Centres of Excellence and María de Maeztu Units of Excellence, which in this seventh edition will bring together representatives of the 65 entities that currently form part of the alliance.