I used to have similar hopes, but I think our first priority must be increasing efficiency of research. Consider the transition to open access; it is still a mi

I used to have similar hopes, but I think our first priority must be increasing efficiency of research. Consider the transition to open access; it is still a minority of research effort so many researchers waste untold resources reinventing the wheel. Also the incentives to publish mean a lot of fields consist of people writing papers for the sake of writing papers, without much progress towards anything resembling novel ideas