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ClearArticleResearch Agenda7 September 2026
The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
How frictionless technologies teach us to prefer our own company – and why research leaders should worry.
ArticleSymplectic10 June 2026
The Holy Grail Was Always the CV
How AI is helping us solve a challenge that has limited research information management for more than two decades
WritingDavidWorlock.com15 May 2026Password required
From the Information Annullus to the Impact of AI: an interview with Dr Daniel Hook, CEO, Digital Science.
In this interview, Dr Daniel Hook discusses the growing influence of AI, the challenges of information overload, and the future of digital research and innovation. Watch the interview: www.patreon.com/davidworlock/
PaperarXiv.org21 April 2026
Market Dynamics, Governance and Open Research Metadata in the AI Era
The debate about scholarly knowledge infrastructure has long been framed as a contest between openness and commercial enclosure. This framing distorts both policy and practice. The real tension lies between the persistent cost of producing and refining structured metadata under deep technological friction, and the differentiated demands distinct communities place on data quality, focus and granularity. We introduce the innovation annulus: the zone between freely available structured data and the advancing frontier of commercially refined knowledge products. This zone is a permanent, functio…
ArticleHoltzbrinck8 April 2026
The Tools That Shape Us
Language is a technology we rarely examine — a cage that shapes thought from the inside. Every communication tool rebuilds that cage: the printing press, keyword search, and now LLMs. But where earlier cages had visible bars you could trace and interrogate, the walls of a model's training data are invisible. Fluency feels like liberation. The cage has always had architects; what's new is that we can no longer see them.
TalkCBS News23 January 2026
AI Offers New Future for Research
Digital Science says artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming research and innovation, creating new possibilities for societal benefit and smart economies.
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