Even in 2017, mankind is still trying to move from eminence-based science to evidence-based science.
As the world moves to become more connected than ever, eminence is too slow and inefficient. Hopefully we can come out of this with evidence as the new king and not some other proxy. We're gonna have to make some changes to get there. (Publication bias, replication prejudice, preregistration, better statistics, reporting accuracy...)
What I'd really like to understand and see visualized are the non-linear social dynamics presented in manifold theory.