Don Tapscott And Anthony D. Williams

A new age of collaborative science is emerging that will accelerate scientific discovery and learning. The emergence of open-access publishing and new Web services will place infinite reams of knowledge in the hands of individuals and help weave globally distributed communities of peers. The rise of large-scale collaborations in domains such as earth sciences and biology, meanwhile, will help scientific communities launch an unprecedented attack on problems such as global warming and HIV/AIDS. All considered, leading scientific observers expect more change in the next fifty years than in the last four hundred years of inquiry.