> On the other hand, the restriction that scientific publications must be renderable onto reconstituted dead trees makes it that authors often spend multiple “p

> On the other hand, the restriction that scientific publications must be renderable onto reconstituted dead trees makes it that authors often spend multiple “pages” explaining what a single interactive chart would explain far better. On the gripping hand, in a century those reconstituted dead trees will still be legible by anyone who can lay hands on them; the likelihood that an interactive presentation from 2019 will be legible to anyone other than a computer archæologist in 2119 is effectively nil. Heck, there’s a decent chance that it won’t work in a year or two!