Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful
I have so much that I want to say about this - but beyond all the politics and moneyed&#x2F;tenured interests holding back change, I can see that Jupyter notebooks are the disruptive innovation that will force publishing to modernize. People I work with are producing notebooks that fuse text, formatted equations, code, and interactive figures in a way that looks and feels like a top-quality paper. Except with this paper, you can reveal the code that produced each figure, probe and alter the analysis methods directly, and download the raw data behind the figures (it&#x27;s an attribute of the plot object! Imagine that!). This format will win. It&#x27;s too useful and solves too many problems not to win. The only question is whether academicians have the foresight to build in a decentralized DARE I SAY blockchain&#x2F;smart-contract-based peer review system to circumvent the rent seeking publishers.