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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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