While I'm sure there are antecedents, going as far back as Heinlein in the '50s, making use of the firehouse of information being produced by academics and rese

While I'm sure there are antecedents, going as far back as Heinlein in the '50s, making use of the firehouse of information being produced by academics and researchers has been identified as a big problem. If Academia.edu can help with this, without doing objectively evil stuff, more power to them.