Internet changes the game by making knowledge accessible to all

TRAVELLING to Traverse City by Lake Michigan in the United States in cold, rainy October, serendipity struck in funny ways.

In a bookshop next door to the renovated Art DecoState Theatre movie-house run by the film director Mike Moore, I picked up a 2010 book by the Serbian physicist, Vlatko Vedral on Decoding Reality, which sees the world through the lens of quantum information. I read the book in Boston, right in the midst of Hurricane Sandy as it tore through the East Coast of the US, demonstrating the frightening power of nature.