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Science 2.0 article in Scientific American

By clock on January 10, 2008.

M. Mitchell Waldrop (author of the delightful book Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos) interviewed me and a bunch of others back in August about the changing ways of science communication. I completely forgot about it, but was reminded yesterday when he e-mailed me to say that the draft of the article is now online on the Scientific American site: Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk?

The idea is that the draft will be improved by commentary by readers - and sure enough, there are already 19 comments there - before it goes to print in a future issue of the magazine. I urge you strongly to go and add your 2 cents to the discussion - some good people are already there.

As such things go (and I am completely not surprised any more by now), the interview lasted more than an hour during which I talked and talked and talked (those who know me are well aware of this annoying ability of mine) and in the end only one, completely non-profound sentence made it into the article. Ah well, that's life ;-)

Not to mention that my views on the topic have somewhat evolved since August.

But the article is good and you can make it even better if you go and post some comments on it before it goes to print.

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