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Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science

by: Michael Nielsen

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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780691148908
ISBN: 0691148902
Item Dimensions: 87946116641
Label: Princeton University Press
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 280
Publication Date: October 03, 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Studio: Princeton University Press

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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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