<div dir="ltr">Lastly, I disagree with the notion that today’s publication silos will be replaced by a set of decentralized, interoperable services that are built on a core infrastructure of open data and evolving standards — like the Web itself. I would argue that both scholarly communication and the web in general have a tendency for centralization, and that scientific infrastructure needs to be interoperable first and decentralized second. Without a focus on interoperability the future of scholarly communication will not be open and in the hands of many, but will be a race to become one of the dominant players in this new ecosystem, and we might end up with not 1000s of libraries and publishers but just a handful of technology companies holding the keys to our scientific infrastructure.<br>
<a href="http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/2013/03/28/some-thoughts-on-beyond-the-paper/">http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/2013/03/28/some-thoughts-on-beyond-the-paper/</a></div>