Screen LibraryReinventing discovery：the new era of networked science
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. |
| Publication Dates: | 2012 . |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 264 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
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9780691148908 (hbk.) 0691148902 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | G302 |
| CLC: | G302 |
| Call Number: | G302/N669 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Reinventing discovery -- Amplifying collective intelligence. Online tools make us smarter ; Restructuring expert attention ; Patterns of online collaboration ; The limits and the potential of collective intelligence -- Networked science. All the world's knowledge ; Democratizing science ; The challenge of doing science in the open ; The Open Science Imperative -- Appendix. The problem solved by the Polymath Project. "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 sto "Reinventing Discovery argues that we are in the early days of the most dramatic change in how science is done in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by new online tools, which are transforming and radically accelerating scientific discovery"-- |