SoHo Science
In the previous post I talked about the long tail of science as independent scientists (or small groups) working outside the mainstream research organisations. Of course it could be an individual within a large organisation who works in a very specialised domain, with few if any peers. But usually I think about the SoHo (small office — home office) individual, as the “extreme” example. There are lots of good scientists already working this way, perhaps making a living as consultants and advisers, but “cloud computing”, and science in the cloud creates an opportunity for this to expand, perhaps to the point where the majority of scientific “product” comes from this long tail.
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