In 2012, scientists who had been struggling for over a decade to find the molecular structure of an AIDS enzyme gave up. The methods they were using to find the structure, as they put it, “just didn’t work.” So, in desperation they turned the problem over to the internet and the gaming community. “To the astonishment of scientists,” as reporters put it, the problem was solved in ten days.25And in 2012 a 16-year-old solved a mathematical problem that had stumped mathematicians for 30 years. When the boy found out there was no solution he just refused, he said, to accept that it was so. So,
