Science is the most interconnected of all human activities, they say, and requires a new series of maps to chart the changing scientific landscape. Knowledge has left books and libraries and is now changing more rapidly than ever before

as i am reading virtual reality and wondering where it got lost (wasn’t VR supposed to be here by now?), sites like nooface and this nsf project rekindle my interest.
you gotta love vivid descriptions like

Ultimately, I’d like to see a map of science in schools, as common as the political world map. ‘Continents’ would represent the diverse areas of science, and closely related areas would reside on the same continent. Teachers might say, ‘Let’s look at the new research frontier in sector F5.’ Students could say, ‘My mom works over there.'”

gives the notion of world traveler a new, highly appealing, twist.