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28
Oct
2009
by David Wojick in Technology
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global-discovery
leaping-concepts
Much of what OSTI does is aimed at accelerating communication within scientific communities. But there is another vitally important kind of scientific communication that we are also facilitating, which I call "leaping concepts." Leaping concepts refers to the case where an important concept suddenly leaps from one community to another. Leaping concepts are often transformational. Finding these vital concepts, so they can leap, is what we mean by "global discovery."[Read More]
