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Title: Reinventing Discovery

Subtitle: The New Era of Networked Science

Author: Michael Nielsen

Narrator: Nicholas Tecosky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 41 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

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.

Critic Reviews:

"This is the book on how networks will drive a revolution in scientific discovery; definitely recommended." (Tyler Cowen, author of The Great Stagnation)

"Science has always been a contact sport; the interaction of many minds is the engine of the discipline. Michael Nielsen has given us an unparalleled account of how new tools for collaboration are transforming scientific practice. Reinventing Discovery doesn't just help us understand how the sciences are changing, it shows us how we can participate in the change." (Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus)

"This wonderful book is a pleasure to read. Michael Nielsen writes in an authoritative yet clear, concise, and accessible style, making an informative and compelling case for open, networked science and how to achieve it." (William Dutton, director of the Oxford Internet Institute)

Members Reviews:

How the Internet is transforming science

If you laid out the books "The Tipping Point," "We Are Anonymous" and "Freakonomics," this book would neatly fill the empty space among them. While "Reinventing Discovery" details specific examples of how the Internet is enabling new forms of scientific collaboration today, it draws attention to the cultural aspects of our networked existence, and this is where I found the book most interesting. With so many people willing to participate in large, networked endeavors, maybe we really are on the cusp of finding new ways to fund and perform scientific research. I wish I could read the sequel that's going to come out decades from now, explaining how all these trends played out.

Like drinking water from a fire hydrant

I'm heavily involved in network science. I've read many books on the topic including The Wisdom of Crowds, Wikinomix and many others. This is the first one it is very practically oriented.