Beyond today's crowdsourced science to tomorrow's citizen science cyborgs
Thursday, March 17, 2016 - 09:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Millions of citizen scientists have been flocking to projects that pool their time and brainpower to tackle big scientific problems, from astronomy to zoology. Projects such as those hosted by the Zooniverse get people across the globe to donate some part of their cognitive surplus, pool it with others' and apply it to scientific research.