Cameron has written a wonderful post about a Science Exchange, distilling a varied set of thoughts, including one by Shirley. It’s clear there are problems and that we need a new system.
I also feel that our future doesn’t lie just with government funding, but increasingly with institutions like the Gates Foundation, or Google.org. Perhaps such an exchange can be funded by a combination of micro-funding and “investors”, who, in essence are enabling the future. If one can layer something like iBridge Network on top of that, that would be even better
That said, I would not mind seeing the scientific equivalent (or equivalents) of Stackoverflow for starters. We need that too.
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