On 13 Aug 17  12:02:16, Richard Menedetter said the following to Orbitman:

RM> Nobody forces the general public to look at Facebook.
RM> They could as well download an EBook from Descartes, or some scientific pap
RM> and read that.
RM> It is NOT the Internets fault that people do not do that very often.
RM> They COULD do it, if they wanted to.

But sadly Richard... people by and large don't want to.

Since the Internet became popular, we have yet to see some really truly great 
science or scientists evolve; using the tools and information available on the
Internet to advance the next "great thing".

Some exceptions of course. Take that project which uses the idle processing 
power of a volunteer's desktop computer to participate in a mass 
distributed-computing effort to decode images from space. Bitcoin currency is 
possibly another. Both of those have some real potential.

Sure, communication between scientists is probably wayyy easier using things 
like email, Skype, etc... 

Nick

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