It's hard to see how the divergence of publishing formats affects us because authors represent a small percentage of our population. Science is good for society, and people need to share information---organizing education and learning can improve the articulation of scientific ideas. Can authors fully express ideas and concepts through existing publishing channels?


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In order to understand the phenomena surrounding a new technology, we must open the question of {\it design}---the interaction between understanding and creation. In speaking here of design, we are not restricting our concert to the methodology of conscious design. We address the broader question of how society engenders inventions whose existence in turn alters that society \cite[4]{understanding}
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A new technology for publishing should facilitate {\it the transmission of ideas}---a professor doesn't just write a book, they are impacting many students across the globe.


Overtime, through {\it increased levels of abstraction}, like \TeX\ $\rightarrow$ \LaTeX, authors have been able to publish more freely, because they can adopt and learn the standard typesetting languages. The distance between their intentions and articulations remains somewhat small. However, if an author must use a new interface for publishing, this increases the distance between the expression of their ideas and the actual concepts at hand.


The hope is that by accelerating the authorship of academic work digitally, as well as increasing the interactivity and immersion of the resulting documents, both publishing and learning are positively influenced. 


The Art of Communicating Ideas