He can work with someone in Japan, Paris or Santa Cruz easily. Teams of researchers breaking up and reforming, like drops of water, get short term projects completed quickly. I can work for one to two weeks, finish a project, move on to a different gene. Pringle finds that most of the researchers he works with on the Internet are younger. Older people don't know how to use the web and are more secretive.
Younger ones take risks and they share.
They're not waiting to go to print. The trend is doing away with journals. It's not about waiting a couple of years to screw your competitor. It doesn't make sense to do that when you're dealing with human disease. There's status in that.