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\item Science and technology increasingly affect modern society.
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The first trend is easy to understand. Let's think of the cumulative knowledge of humankind as a sphere. Scientists work at the surface
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boundary}", discovery boundary}". Discovery increases the volume of knowledge. As the sphere's volume grows, so does its surface area; this requires an ever increasing number of researchers to tessellate the expanding cutting-edge of science. Moreover, contrary to a few hundred years ago when the sphere of knowledge was so small that a single polymath could master large chunks of it, nowadays no human can understand the details of more than a few subtopics of research. To capture the bigger picture and understand very complex research questions, collaborative efforts combining together a number of highly specific expertises are required.