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The New Era of Networked Science
Princeton University Press
November 2011
On Sale: October 23, 2011
280 pages
ISBN: 0691148902
EAN: 9780691148908
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are
living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in
more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful
new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are
greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many
books about how the internet is changing business or the
workplace or government. But this is the first book about
something much more fundamental: how the internet is
transforming the nature of our collective intelligence and
how we understand the world. Reinventing Discovery tells the exciting story of an
unprecedented new era of networked science. We learn, for
example, how mathematicians in the Polymath Project are
spontaneously coming together to collaborate online,
tackling and rapidly demolishing previously unsolved
problems. We learn how 250,000 amateur astronomers are
working together in a project called Galaxy Zoo to
understand the large-scale structure of the Universe, and
how they are making astonishing discoveries, including an
entirely new kind of galaxy. These efforts are just a small
part of the larger story told in this book--the story of how
scientists are using the internet to dramatically expand our
problem-solving ability and increase our combined brainpower. This is a book for anyone who wants to understand how the
online world is revolutionizing scientific discovery
today--and why the revolution is just beginning.
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