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Mar 10, 2008

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." --Alan Kay

Science Reinvented

The explosively growing World Wide Web has rapidly transformed retailing, publishing, personal communication and much more. Innovations have forced old-line institutions to adopt whole new ways of thinking, working and doing business. Science could be next. A small but growing number of researchers -- and not just the younger ones -- have begun to carry out their work via the wide-open blogs, wikis and social networks of Web 2.0. In this article, Scientific American experiments with "networked journalism," in which readers get to collaborate with the author to give a story its final form. A particularly apt candidate, this feature story on "Science 2.0," describes how researchers are beginning to harness wikis, blogs and other Web 2.0 technologies as a potentially transformative way of doing science. And reader input will shape it.