How the internet and powerful online tools are democratizing and
accelerating scientific discovery
Reinventing Discovery argues that we are living at the dawn of the
most dramatic change in science in more than three hundred years. This
change is being driven by powerful cognitive tools, enabled by the
internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are
many books about how the internet is changing business, the workplace,
or government. But this is the first book about something much more
fundamental: how the internet is transforming our collective
intelligence and our understanding of the world. From the collaborative
mathematicians of the Polymath Project to the amateur astronomers of
Galaxy Zoo, Reinventing Discovery tells the exciting story of the
unprecedented new era in networked science. It will interest anyone who
wants to learn about how the online world is revolutionizing scientific
discovery--and why the revolution is just beginning.