Information has value, and information of science and technology has particularly great value. Assured Science was interesting to me because I had observed some of the dislocation between information of value and accessibility to the information.
My experience in scientific research allowed me to observe the loss of access to information which could otherwise have been useful to the scientific community. My own first attempts to get more cooperativity in information production, storage and exchange had some parallels, perhaps, to the more sophisticated TURN concept.
My career in science started with the traditional bound, hand-written research notebook method of conserving data, discovery, insight, calculation and invention documentation. A career of such notebooks may fill a shelf in a corporate library, with the work of other scientists occupying other shelves in a library. While it is possible to access these records while a member of the corporation, it is likely that many of these books will never be opened again. If information cannot be accessed, then its value is lost. I made some efforts to make such information more accessible by using the readily available tools of digital technology. This was a small step to allow sharing of information among department scientists, a small bubble. Going further is a much bigger idea, and requires overcoming cultural tradition and policy change.
So the nodes, bubbles and bridging links of the TURN concept is the big idea allowing access to useful information in a dynamic way, giving links between information bubbles, and allowing the mining of needed information in a financially stable ecosystem.