Showing posts with label science 2.0. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science 2.0. Show all posts

04 March 2007

Open Science Enters the Mainstream

Interesting not so much for what it says, but that it's Business Week that's saying it:


Just as the Enlightenment ushered in a new organizational model of knowledge creation, the same technological and demographic forces that are turning the Web into a massive collaborative work space are helping to transform the realm of science into an increasingly open and collaborative endeavor. Yes, the Web was, in fact, invented as a way for scientists to share information. But advances in storage, bandwidth, software, and computing power are pushing collaboration to the next level. Call it Science 2.0.