. A secretive culture of discovery was a natural consequence of a society in which there was often little personal gain in sharing discoveries.
Why were Hooke, Newton, and their contemporaries so secretive?
the great physicist Michael Faraday could advise a younger colleague to “Work. Finish. Publish.”
the first scientific journals weren’t created until three years later, in 1665.
The internet offers us the first major opportunity to improve this collective long-term memory, and to create a collective short-term working memory, a conversational commons for the rapid collaborative development of ideas
The process of scientific discovery - how we do science - will change more over the next 20 years than in the past 300 years.
The first is to view online tools as a way of expanding the range of scientific knowledge that can be shared with the world
There is a second and more radical way of thinking about how the internet can change science, and that is through a change to the process and scale of creative collaboration itself, a change enabled by social software such as wikis, online forums, and their descendants.
Science is an example par excellence of creative collaboration, yet scientific collaboration still takes place mainly via face-to-face meetings. With the exception of email, few of the new social tools have been broadly adopted by scientists, even though it is these tools which have the greatest potential to improve how science is done.
What we’ll find is that there are major cultural barriers which are preventing scientists from getting involved, and so slowing down the progress of science.
The problem all these sites have is that while thoughtful commentary on scientific papers is certainly useful for other scientists, there are few incentives for people to write such comments
Some people find this contrast curious or amusing; I believe it signifies something seriously amiss with science, something we need to understand and change.
These failures of science online are all examples where scientists show a surprising reluctance to share knowledge that could be useful to others
We should aim to create an open scientific culture where as much information as possible is moved out of people’s heads and labs, onto the network, and into tools which can help us structure and filter the information. This means everything - data, scientific opinions, questions, ideas, folk knowledge, workflows, and everything else - the works. Information not on the network can’t do any good.
As we have seen, however, science faces a unique set of forces that inhibit open culture - the centuries-old subsidy of old ways of sharing knowledge - and this requires a new understanding of how to overcome those forces.

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