The Future of Science (Re-post from TechCrunch)
By True Ventures, April 30, 2012
Richard Price, Founder and CEO of True portfolio company Academia.edu, wrote an awesome guest post for TechCrunch yesterday on how the web is changing academic research and publishing. A true visionary in his field, we’re excited to see Richard leading the way to faster and better scientific discourse.
“Science is fundamentally a conversation between scientists around the world. Currently the intervals between iterations of that conversation are 12 months on average. This 12 month time-lag represents a huge amount of friction in the circulation of scientific ideas.
Imagine the slowdown on the web if every blog post, and every tweet, and every photo, was made available on the web 12 months after it was originally posted. Imagine if all the stories in your Facebook News Feed were 12 months old. People would be storming the steps of Congress, demanding change.”