量子信息和量子计算领域的年轻大牛Michael Nielsen 最近在 blog 上明确说，他将改变方向，专注于开发用于科学协作与出版的新工具。众人都说他很有勇气。我认为不只是勇气而已，他的决定也很有前瞻性。过些年就知道他的决定是否正确了。

他的这个转变也不是突然的。首先，他是位资深科学 blogger，远在众多科学家认识到 blog 的重要意义前就开始了；另外，他着手做一个叫 The Academic Reader 的项目也已经有段时间；前不久，他在 blog 上宣布说，正在写一本关于科学的未来的书。

需要他这样的大牛带头，来推进科学交流的变革。

Michael Nielsen 最近又开始活跃地 blog 起来。最近一个帖子提到，他也在考虑网络对科学的影响，并已经开始起草一本相关的书，在未来几个礼拜内会贴出一个摘要。摘要将谈到这些内容：

Micropublication（微发表）: Allowing immediate publication in small incremental steps, both of conventional text, and in more diverse media formats (e.g. commentary, code, data, simulations, explanations, suggestions, criticism and correction). All are to be treated as first class fully citable publications, creating an incentive for people to contribute far more rapidly and in a wider range of ways than is presently the case.

Open source research（开源研究）: Using version control systems to open up scientific publications so they can be extended, modified, reused, refactored and recombined by other users, all the while preserving a coherent and citable record of who did what, and when.

The future of peer review（同行评议的未来）: The present quality assurance system relies on refereeing as a filtering system, prior to publication. Can we move to a system where the filtering is done after publication?

Collaboration markets（合作市场）: How can we fully leverage individual expertise? Most researchers spend much of their time reinventing the wheel, or doing tasks at which they have relatively little comparative advantage. Can we provide mechanisms to easily outsource work like this?

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