Remote collaboration leads to less innovative science – study

In the 90s, The EU Amodeus-2 project explored how different techniques from multiple discipline could be brought together to improve design of human-computer interfaces.Predating the web we relied on email, post, shared online repositories. However even taking that into account the most effective method was to get the different disciplines in the same room, working on he problem concurrently so that an idea found in one perspective could immediately trigger a new line of thought in the other investigators. And dually questions could be answered immediately. Online has its uses but has been over-hyped.