Chapter 10
Carrying the web with you

Arthur C Clark famously said that, if a technology was sufficiently advanced, it would seem like magic. I have saved the best until last - and my friends truly thought this was magic.

Take my friend who was doing a PhD on insulin signalling. It is very molecular science, making it consistently above my head. Nevertheless, the work is still fascinating, and it is always a pleasure talking to her. Once, I asked her what had caught her eye recently in Nature, her bible. She showed me a paper in the journal, about an insulin mouse model - or rather, she showed me an editorial about it. The original paper was actually in the New England Journal of Medicine, my bible. Instantly, I took out my handheld, and showed her the paper.

She was gob smacked.

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