joeyklee
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8 years ago - a book which explains a future when science has become fully open
- illustrated and meant to explain what science is not currently and what it could be inspired by lunchtime conversation at Moz Berlin - thinking about what if we did X what would happen & why is there a saturation in the science market, why do we feel like we’ve “given up” * if we leave academia, etc.
- Story:
- Takes place 50 years from now when science has become fully open
- what does this look like? what are the major things? the minor details that make this future scenario explicit?
- Topics?
- completely open access articles
- the PG version: Publishers release all papers and become dedicated to repairing decades of exploitation by ....
- The not-so-PG-version: Publishers are dismantled and the science community becomes the sole arbiters and maintainers, etc.
- data is available everywhere and acessible
- peer to peer
- education - tools, training, etc.
- review process
- funding
- reproducibility
- Cases?
- In biomedical research - open data was used to find a cure for X, Y, Z
- Biology - climate change scenario, computing adaptations for food BY local biologists all over the world
- Using shapes as characters for a First prototype?
- who are the characters?
- what do they embody?
- how are they represented?