From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 07:06:55 -0700 This article is idiosyncratic and has a known outlier (Wolfram) at the heart of it: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-scientific-paper-is-obsolete/556676/ But it makes some good points about the way science is actually done nowadays and the widening gap between that work and the traditions of the scientific paper. It makes me think about what would happen if you really started from scratch: no articles, no journals, just scientists and scholars suddenly waking up one day and thinking they need to tell other people what they're discovering. What would you invent from scratch with current technology, as the first "journal" publishers were inventors with current technology 350 years ago? Maybe the way to focus the question is this: what is the most important thing you'd like to have in your scholarly communication system that we just don't have now and don't see a way to get from "articles" and "journals"? Jim O'Donnell ASU