Floehopper

thoughts on the bergy bits of life

[Peter Murray-Rust, reader in the department of chemistry at Cambridge] says it is “extraordinary” that, while scientists may have invented the web, science has yet to be transformed by it in the way that other areas, such as finance, travel and retail, have.

“I am a radicalist. I think the system will crash but I am not exactly sure how,” he says. Nevertheless, “a few determined people in the right area with modern tools can completely change the way we do things”, he concludes.

Times Higher Education - A threat to scientific communication