We are no longer a priesthood

“…Knowledge production is becoming less and less a self-contained activity, it is neither the science of the “universities” nor the technology of industry. It is no longer the preserve of a special type of institution, from which knowledge is expected to spill over, or spin off, to the benefit of other sectors.… At its base lies the expansion of the numbers of sites which form the sources for a continual combination and recombination of knowledge resources. What we are seeing is the multiplication of the nerve endings of knowledge.” -M. Gibbons, Euroscience, March 1997, Strasbourg, France. © 1998, ACM. All rights reserved.