4. I think that scientific information in general is not sufficiently well-organized and that this greatly
Help to organize scientific information
By preserving and organizing their worklog and making parts of it available to the scientific community, iPad users can create a powerful complementary source of scientific information. This source would contain more details than the current scientific publications. Moreover, it would be unrestricted by the current publishing process, allowing free communication of scientific results.
Quotes
"Science flourished after the enlightenment due to the competition among ideas and multiple hypothesis. If this is not allowed to happen, it is not science." Perry G. et al. When hypotheses dominate. The Scientist, 6 December 2004.
"The very notion of a journal of medicine separate from a journal of bioinformatics, separate from the writings of physicists, chemists, psychologists and even kindergarten teachers, will someday become as out of date as the print journal is becoming to our graduate students. Does this sound like a crazy science-fiction dream? A decade ago, who would have believed a web of text, conveyed by computer, would challenge a 200-year-old tradition of academic publishing?" Berners-Lee T., Hendler J. Scientific publishing on the ’semantic web’. Nature Web Debates, 2001.