human made

This is a great article on a new directions for science research and publishing. From a guy who actually has been dealing with it for the last few years.

…pointing to the fact that we’re not taking enough advantage of technology is the success of the polymath projects in leveraging a distributed and open group of people to solve hard math problems by letting them easily collaborate on ideas for making progress. Certainly, this shows we can do better. People are solving hard math problems with global-scale collaboration and we’re still having arguments about whether it’s OK for organizations to be able to hide publicly-funded research behind paywalls.

Go read.