Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science (Princeton Science Library (91))

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-- 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-- 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. Michael Nielsen. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 239-253) And Index. "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"-- Provided by publisher Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 1. Reinventing Discovery......Page 10 PART 1. AMPLIFYING COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE......Page 22 2. Online Tools Make Us Smarter......Page 24 3. Restructuring Expert Attention......Page 31 4. Patterns of Online Collaboration......Page 53 5. The Limits and the Potential of Collective Intelligence......Page 78 PART 2. NETWORKED SCIENCE......Page 98 6. All the World’s Knowledge......Page 100 7. Democratizing Science......Page 138 8. The Challenge of Doing Science in the Open......Page 181 9. The Open Science Imperative......Page 196 Appendix: The Problem Solved by the Polymath Project......Page 218 Acknowledgments......Page 224 Selected Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading......Page 226 Notes......Page 230 References......Page 248 B......Page 264 C......Page 265 E......Page 266 G......Page 267 L......Page 268 O......Page 269 P......Page 270 S......Page 271 U......Page 272 Z......Page 273 "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"-- Provided by publisher A pioneer of quantum computing describes how the Internet and powerful new online tools are democratising and accelerating scientific discovery