Reacción a "Reactions: Remote collaborations in science diminish innovative discoveries"

Creative scientific collaboration requires spontaneity and liveliness that is only possible in personal encounters. This applies in particular to the parts that cannot be planned, which involve the exploration of new ideas, conceptual questions and the unexpected inclusion of new aspects. Such brainstorming also requires mutual trust and a familiarity that only arises in close proximity. The history of science provides many examples of this; after all, even before digital media, there was the alternative between an exchange from a distance and a direct encounter.