In a world envisioned by Charles Einstein, I think scientific research will shift dramatically in focus and interest. Modern scientific purpose is essentially to discover perspectives and technologies to maintain a centralized, bureaucratic state that consumes most of the citizen's energy: the fusion reactor research in France, NASA's astroid mining theories, AI development to collate and organize the near-infinite data being collected. Even block-chain technology is developed to enhance the efficiency of financial and legal transactions. The discontented hunger of a bureaucracy and her materially rich but spiritually poor citizens drive current scientific focus in search of more effective means of resource hoarding.

In a world of decentralized communities, content with minor luxuries, whose fundamental assumptions are of gratitude and gift cycling, modern scientific endeavors would seem purposeless and foreign. Why expend resources discovering exo-planets to colonize and astroids to mine, when man develops the ability to live in harmony within one locality, let alone one planet? With what purpose would an infinite power source of the fusion reactor serve in a world of resource contentment? How would a sophisticated data collating artificial intellect be utilized in a localized society of communal relationship?

I think in a ON paradigm, the science will be less technical/mechanical in focus and more observational. Observational research does not really require a centralized locus, as the scientists will be required to travel to different areas. I think the cost of scientific studies will decrease significantly because of the dramatic shift in man' perspective on his relationship with this planet and his purpose.