Comments on: Is the Future of Science Research Open?

By: dan2max

dan2max — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:52:42 +0000

wheres the big chris head thats usually on your macbook pro?

By: Garrett Fuchs

Garrett Fuchs — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:56:01 +0000

It depends…people want to pattent and retain ideas for themselves with the end goal of either a. getting money for their creations, or b. becoming famous for a discovery. There is deffinately a possibility for collaboration between people, but it won’t nessacarily happen. In some cases, however, people who come together independantly to produce a product will succeed and come out with something life changing.

By: Bailey24

Bailey24 — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:59:48 +0000

i think the science community should be more open and collaborate more, because the more the scientists work together and share their findings the more advancements in science we will have.

By: Jamie Jahnke

Jamie Jahnke — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:29:38 +0000

I haven’t read a magazine in a long time, probably Popular Mechanics or Popular Science was the last one. With blogs and online news, I haven’t found magazines all that useful.

By: Finlay Craig

Finlay Craig — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:28:11 +0000

Without being accredited, many people find it difficult to get the ideas or suggestions, be them scientific or otherwise, out there. And I think people have a lot to say and contribute. Two minds are greater than one. And I think that this is very true. In terms of Mathematics, what would be wrong with putting out mathematical problems for people to solve. Some Mathematical problems are yet to be solved, and maybe someone out there could help. I’m trying to discredit real Mathematicians, but I think if the world wide combined power of us could definitely be useful.

By: Sugaslim

Sugaslim — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:00:08 +0000

Open access would help scientists solve things A LOT faster than if they are greedy and try to do everything themselves. It would also save on the cash needed to fund these projects, as they will get done faster. This is clearly a situation of doing more with more because its practical.

By: SlipFlurry

SlipFlurry — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:37:40 +0000

I definitely believe that the future of Science research is open. However, I think there needs to be some form of authentication for people to prove that they have the credentials that they are claiming they have so that researchers don’t have to waste their time wading through a bunch of claims made by an unqualified individual.

By: r3novatyo

r3novatyo — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:42:59 +0000

“Open access” practices are like open source software.Chances to finalize a project rises when many people are involved into it.Many ideas many chances to succeed

By: Bread

Bread — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:41:59 +0000

This sounds like an interesting idea. I wonder what open science will to do scientific acceleration.

By: Matt Smith

Matt Smith — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:15:25 +0000

I’ve been a long time subscriber to Popular Science. However, it makes a good point that science research will eventually migrate to “open”. Collaboration between other scientists across the globe will become substantially easier, as this information will be accessible to everyone.

By: aeiz

aeiz — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:43:29 +0000

Science should be open as long as the information shared provides no means to cause harm. I could see an ordinary Joe or enemy country using open science to their benefit.

By: tehdued

tehdued — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:22 +0000

so many double posts… the site was f***d up at some point

By: jorg pihelgas

jorg pihelgas — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:54:56 +0000

Well i wish that the science research is going to stay open but i have a bad fealing that it will not turn out like that. I love science and the new ideas they come up everyday and i try to stay tuned up with those most of the time but as world starts to have a lot of issues, tensions are high, conflicts rising, money problems, fuel resource, etc then by those factors they might make it more private.

By: TechGuy555

TechGuy555 — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:09:15 +0000

I believe that as long as people are willing to invest and work in the fields of science and technology, anything is possible. If something goes wrong, then people work to fix it. We just remember that anything is possible.

By: jsf

jsf — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:05:48 +0000

I think it’s only natural that scientific research has now followed the pattern of the consumer to the web. Even though it’s been around for years as both the world wide web and as ARPANET, scientists have been slow to embrace this phenomenon as an aid to their research. But now that’s changed, for some at least. There is such a wealth of information out there that scientists, if they aren’t too concerned about credit, have nothing to lose and everything to gain by making a move to the net. Let the revolution continue.