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<font size="+1">Dear Mark and Colleagues,<br>
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Thanks for the well crafted work. Actually you have presented us
a tightly linked work along perspectives of philosophical,
historical, and present day criticisms stances. For my taste,
Sections 1 and 2 are a matter of opinion, of philosophical
orientation, closer in this case to critical stances. Speech
social-construction, status function, scarcity declaration,
communication definition, information-uncertainty sciences, etc.
Some of these topics are or have been subject to hot debate in
this list, so I decline entering--anyhow, my personal impression
is that such kind of oriented approach although formally
consistent, leave aside important aspects of the phenomenon. But
it is good that you have made the consistent scheme. <br>
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Historically, the parallel between publication in that
transitional period of the "scientific revolution" and our times
of "information revolution" is well developed. Just to enlarge
the panorama, I recommend <span class="st"><em>Information Ages</em>.
Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution. Michael E.
Hobart and Zachary S. Schiffman. (2000). The publication
practices around the "papiri era", culminating in the
Alexandrian Library, and the "codices era", around the
monastic system first and later around the university system
are the two big precedents. The underlying phenomenon in all
eras </span><span class="st">revolves </span><span
class="st">around the "sharing of knowledge", a genuine
cognitive instinct that is channeled in different ways by
existing social orders and </span><span class="st">available
</span><span class="st">technical resources. Not much different
from the artistic pulsion--and often closely interlinked
(paradigmatic Leonardo da Vinci). <br>
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In our times, there is a famous sentence by premier Zhou Enlai
"It is too early to say"... However personally I share most of
the concerns raised by Mark, adding a pessimistic note on the
impact that the new techs are having in the "creative engine"
of science. Although multiple new fields have been open thanks
to the computer upheaval (precision medicine, </span><span
class="st">omic revolution, </span><span class="st">nanosciences,
social physics, social neurosceince, social networks, big data
everywhere, etc etc), the amazing bounty has been accompanied
by new problems. On the one side a new aristocracy related to
big sceince projects and techno-utopian goals, more and more
distanced of the common researcher, plus an enormous increase
of computer-mediated bureaucratization. Besides, the really
easy communication tools and the multiplicity of channels have
derived in an unselected overflow that impacts negatively on
the slow reflection needed in science: rushing from screen to
screen, no time to think. Something similar is happening in
technically mediated social relationships--terrible for
instance in adolescents. If we are going toward a symbiosis
man-machine, the prospects are not fascinating.<br>
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Well, these are comments from a late baby boomer, hardly
adapted to the new order...<br>
Best greetings to all<br>
--Pedro<br>
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</font> <font size="+1">I El 26/09/2016 a las 9:55, Mark Johnson
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<pre wrap=""><font size="+1">Dear FIS Colleagues,
To kick-start the discussion on scientific publishing, I have prepared
a short (hopefully provocative) video. It can be found at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bh3vqM98-U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bh3vqM98-U</a>
(if anyone's interested, the software I used for </font>producing it is
called 'Videoscribe')
I have also produced a paper which is attached.
I hope you find these interesting and stimulating!
Best wishes,
Mark
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