It’s not often that Lord Sainsbury of Turville gets excited. But just mention the e-word and watch Britain’s science minister go.
E-science, he says, will revolutionise the way scientists work together, create the next-generation Internet, turn telecommunications topsy-turvy and much else besides. Terascale computing, very large data collections and high-performance visualisation were the high-voltage words he delivered last week in a speech on the future of science.
So what is e-science? According to the Department of Trade and Industry, the goal is to develop “the Web on steroids” – the department is clearly unaware of government policy on drug abuse.…
