Collaborating with the Enemy
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Collaboration Is Becoming More
Necessary and More Difficult

The urge to form partnerships, to link up in collaborative arrangements, is perhaps the oldest, strongest, and most fundamental force in nature. There are no solitary, free living creatures: every form of life is dependent on other forms.

—Lewis ThomasLewis Thomas, “On the Uncertainty of Science,” Key Reporter, Autumn 1980, 10.

Collaboration is often imperative and usually challenging. And the more we need it, the more difficult we find it.