七年。
也许,和今天没什么两样;
也许,会发生很大的变化。
顺手翻译了一下,一个学者眼里的七年,已经能看到些许动向。
In seven years there will be no essential difference between comments on articles and peer-reviews,
七年后,对文章进行评论和同行评审将不存在本质差别;
In seven years there will be semantic means of definition of plagiarism and, as a consequence, a significant percentage of today’s articles will qualify as recycled crap,
七年后,会出现多种定义剽窃的语义方法,从而导致相当比例现在的文章被当做垃圾回收;
In seven years there will be popularity contests and evaluations based on the popularity of the authors as measured by their impact on the web,
七年后,会出现基于文章作者的名声的名声竞赛和评估方式,而其中作者的名声依赖于他们在网上的影响力;
In seven years the best universities will gamify the teaching process,
七年后,顶尖的大学将游戏化他们的教学过程;
In seven years all successful changes of the process of dissemination of knowledge will turn out to be among those born from private initiatives,
七年后,所有知识传播过程的成功变化最终是这些源于私人主动性的变化;
In seven years large research collaborations of mathematicians will be regarded as normal,
七年后,数学家们间的大的研究合作将会很普遍;
In seven years most of the articles which are now under the lock of the copyright belonging to the publisher will be seen as vanity publication and their most important use will be as data for programs of massively extraction of semantic content.
七年后,那些被锁在属于出版商版权下的大多数文章将被看做是没有价值的出版物,他们大多数的主要的用途将仅在于程序大量提取语义内容的数据。