Online networking tools are pervasive, but why have scientists been so slow to adopt many of them? Michael Nielsen explains how we can build a better culture of online collaboration

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Michael Nielsen was Foundation Professor of Quantum Information Science at the University of Queensland, Australia, and a senior faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. He is currently writing a book about the future of science.