Open Science in open society | Scienza in Rete

[From Google's English] "There is plenty of evidence, and the reader Scienzainrete has certainly aware that the current crisis will end when we wake up in the knowledge-society  ( 1 , 2 ). The daughter of the crisis will not only be the largest and fastest redefinition of geographical and social wealth of the world in recorded history, but, for merit and demerit of finance of the last thirty years, will also be the first cry of a new social form that will mark the fourth revolution in human history (after consciousness, agriculture and industry). The knowledge-society, in fact, is a new form of society that is no longer limited to producing only the knowledge they need to meet the needs that arise in the daily survival, but increasingly the knowledge to live a life that has among its own purposes knowledge. And if you think it is a paradox that as a good knowledge (a common good, albeit particular - in fact requires adequate governance to be really) face turn the entire society, moving growing investments of private and public money as well as time of work and life for millions of people, it means that you have an idea of very abstract knowledge and practical too narrow an idea of well-being ..."