slightly comment to this essay , (there were other essays as well" bonobo science", or with "The Name of the arXiv: when too much zeal is an obstacle to science”") concerning apparently with the social status of the researcher/ scientists
married , health , deceased past century etc
an idea might be ,
printed medium first , lets say there is an ink that after a year or two is not having the same color any more or is just disappearing , when the article is published , immediately after the publication the Author (s) (if many) might want to reveal certain information, that are not with a scientific scope ,
some articles contains this in between lines ,lets say make those explicit by placing status near the alphabetic name
online/virtual environment this status can magically appear and dissapear
single 23, years old, at the date of the publication 11 eleven 5may 2012two thousand twelves
, for example, and naturally this is slowly becoming irrelevant for the author, because nobody reading in the year 2023would care about that ,
going further even the bibliographical reference list could do the same , for example, some kind of indicator(maybe not written by the authors himself), like has the author contacted all the people in that have made a (i stay on shoulders of giants) type of inspiration , or some might not want to appear there, even if they are dead , lets say i have tried to visit the Niels Bohr gravestone in Copenhagen,where also Kierkegaard or Hans Christian Anderson are being buried , to obtain approval for citing his work in a tabloid like scientific journal.
previously (earlier than20-30 years ago) it was not a practice to have the picture of the authors contained .
at 1700 if you wanted to have that you had to hire a special artist, to do the drawing, and a special typography person to create the drawing print ,i guess personal communication letters had attempts at that . nowdays i could learn about someone's scientific work via a video, than to look at the publications list , containing magical moved scroll words online.
not flipping paper pages
the idea is to think , long term and short term, and with multiple utilities
how someone from the year 7314, is going experience is relevant for science,
the priorities for the authors might be short termed
reading not necessarily scientifc as mental cultural social process is not being done with the idea of responding to the author , on the other hand with the advent of communication technologies where writing can be done in any circumstances interferences and new possibilities (why you type write SMS to your friends, do you train to be a publisher ?), or
this scientific article was AI written /transcribe after phone dictation in a park for a walk
standing still at a desk brings many other expressive possibilities: handwritten calligraphy is an example .
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