Author: Cristina V. Niculescu

Abstract

Scientific development of the different disciplines at the end of the 20th century is not to be conceived without an interdisciplinary view on the problems. This fact implies both a deep documentation and a cooperation among the scientists on the diverse knowledge spheres. The Internet offers the appropriate technical support for cooperation in space and time among persons with different competencies and it also provides opportunities for up-to-date documentation on various subjects.

But the Internet is not only a sum of communicational and informational technologies it also has become a "human" net, it integrates in its structure and functionality the users' interaction. Thus, the Internet has an "integrating vocation" for scientific research, connecting results of different research processes, developed with diverse methods. The outcome of this process is a level of knowledge that is not identical with the sum of knowledge parts, being superior. The leap is from a mechanical level of totaling to a holistic one of a spiritual type.