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Information awakening

Nature Physics volume 5, pages 238–240 (2009)Cite this article

Online tools for collaboration and sharing information have changed the routine of scientists. But the revolution that will turn scientific information from a collection of files into an active system has just begun.

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Figure 1: The first hint of Saturn's rings was seen by Galileo Galilei.

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  1. Michael Nielsen was Foundation Professor of Quantum Information Science and a Federation Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia, and a Senior Faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. He left the Perimeter Institute to be able to work on a book about the future of science. Blog: http://michaelnielsen.org/blog mn@michaelnielsen.org,

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Nielsen, M. Information awakening. Nature Phys 5, 238–240 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1238

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