And the Xerox Alto had a budget for 10 years. Unthinkable in today's "What did you publish?? Publish or it didn't happen. No R01 for you! (2 year funding)" culture.
Isn't that the primary mechanism for exchanging knowledge and driving discussion among academics?
If not, what should replace it?
Einstein's 1905 papers were published without peer review.
I still get spam emails asking me to pay for papers I've already uploaded to public servers years ago.
Here's one from this morning- already deleted by Google's spam filter: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h8YVu5-DEx-1mOibiLpfJHrErvX...
The actual article was intended as a joke: https://vixra.org/abs/2405.0051 yet fraudulent publishers continue to treat it as a serious article.
It would be nice if publishing a fake paper every now and then could serve like a sinkhole for scammers, but I would be too optimistic or naive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_sinkhole
Fantastic!
I don’t know what you’d replace “number of papers” with, but it probably should not be so easily quantifiable and gameable.