Reinventing Discovery | Michael Nielsen | Talks at Google

"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"--

[@TheLouisandKyleShow]

Making a mental note to come back to this one.

[@tpal3243]

come back

[@ksheshadri1167]

Wonderful talk, lots of insights. And it is deeply interesting that there is so little interest in this talk!

[@DavidSprings]

I find it interesting that after 4,892 views of this video over 5 years, there has not been a single comment before this one. On my part, viewing this lecture was a part of an assignment for a class called "information Networking" that I am taking. Any insight as to why there has been no feedback (at least in this form) on a talk that could arguably be characterized as on that has a purpose of encouraging communication?

[@csurmilla]

this is a very important talk! If peolpe miss it out it's their fault. shall we start agruing about that? :)

[@maurovelaquez2771]

It's incredibly curious that 5 years passed without a single comment. Even now a year after, there's only a reply to your comment.

[@michaelyoungsusernam]

a year later another comment
heard an excerpt on a podcast & came to check out the whole talk

[@nevajism]

its a very good question - and why the low view count (the other talks by him seem to have an even lower viewcount) I found this through a reference on dominic cummings blog- he is the new manderin behind boris johnson.

[@chiunile]

about time for another comment. let's keep this going