—Timo Hannay, managing director of Digital Science, which is owned by Macmillan Publishers, in a statement announcing a move by the publisher to make the contents of all journals under Nature Publishing Group freely readable online to users sent a link to a paper by a subscriber (December 2)
—Open-access advocate and senior fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri, John Wilbanks, in a comment about the announcement of the new Macmillan Publishers policy that all Nature Publishing Group journals will be free to read online if subscribers share a link (Nature News, December 2)
—University of Cambridge theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, talking to the BBC about the dangers of developing artificial intelligence (December 2)
—Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson, in his 1998 book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
—James Watson, Chancellor Emeritus of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and codiscoverer of the double-helical structure of DNA, describing ...
