Modern science is accustomed to bigness. In five years, the world's most powerful particle accelerator will be in operation at the CERN physics laboratory outside Geneva. The $4 billion accelerator will give physicists the tools they need to search for scientific prizes like the elusive Higgs boson, a particle believed to be the origin of mass and weight in the universe. Scientists will collaborate remotely using the Grid Physics Network [...]"

Katie Hafner's article quotes Michael Schrage of the MIT Media Lab and refers to JCR Licklider from ARPA of yore, David Gerlernter of Yale, Ian Foster of U. Chicago, and others. They discuss the way that collaborative computing tools are changing the conduct of science and business across and around the world.