From their first NFT post:

“In the great symphony of human progress, science has performed the leading melody. From its first simple refrains in the understanding of fire and wheel to the awe-inspiring compositions of relativity and genetics, science has persistently unlocked the mysteries of the universe, granting humanity the power to explore, understand, and influence the world around us….

Despite these monumental advancements, the fruits of scientific research have long been confined within ivory towers, hidden behind paywalls and obscured by jargon….

In the coming decades, we believe open science will fuel an unprecedented explosion of knowledge and innovation. It will allow us to transcend the limitations of traditional academic silos, integrate diverse perspectives, and foster a truly global scientific community. It will accelerate the pace of discovery and expand the impact of science on society.”

P.S. the artwork is pretty amazing at full size.

==> the Blockchain Preprint Server: ScieNFT

You can publish at ScieNFT too, with more functionality to come for feedback, sharing & peer review. Hoping to improve scientific publishing.

I shared my graph of computational progress over 125 years, lucky NFT#7.

One response to “ScieNFT Manifesto for Open Science”

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    jurvetson

    features to come, from Robb’s DeSCI deck

    The manifesto reminds me of these passages I pulled from Kevin Kelly’s book What Technology Wants:

    “By systematically recording the evidence for beliefs and investigating the reasons why things worked and then carefully distributing proven innovations, science quickly became the greatest tool for making new things the world has ever seen. Science was in fact a superior method for a culture to learn.”

    “Most change in the past was cyclical. For most humans, for most of time, real change was rarely experienced. And when change erupted it was to be avoided. If historical change had any perceived direction at all, it was downhill. In ancient times when a bearded prophet forecasted what was to come, the news was generally bad. The idea that the future brought improvement was never very popular until recently.”

    “In all cultures prior to the 17th century or so, the quiet, incremental drift of progress was attributed to the gods, or to the one God. It wasn’t until progress was liberated from the divine and assigned to ourselves that it began to feed upon itself.

    There was a tight feedback loop as increased knowledge enabled us to discover and manufacture more tools, and these tools allowed us to discover and learn more knowledge, and both the tools and the knowledge made our lives easier and longer. The general enlargement of knowledge and comfort and choices — and the sense of well-being — was called progress. The rise of progress coincided with the rise of technology.”

    — From my little book reviewWhat Technology Wants

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