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Commentary
Nature Geoscience 1, 209 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ngeo174
Minority report
Myles Allen1
- Myles Allen is at the University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK.
e-mail: allen@atm.ox.ac.uk
Abstract
Explaining science to journalists and the public on blogs is fast and efficient. But is it all just too good to be true? Can science survive Web 2.0?
It seemed such a good idea at the time. You may recall the film Minority Report, in which a futuristic society develops a way of detecting crimes before they are committed, so athletic black-clad operatives can crash in and stop the bad guys in the act.
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