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Open science and technology...

In order for science and technology become a driving force that improves our lives, we need to start making them more open and facilitate people ability to get more knowledge about what it's been work on in those areas.

Not only that, communities should be allowed to grow around then to work directly on those projects. That work should be allowed to be within the any set of rules made by the initial group that started the project, or independently by other communities.

There should be some level of interaction, and compatibilities, among what worked by the different communities. Yet at what level of interaction should be left to the members of each community to decide. There should be some ground rules on how the can use, and what levels of compatibilities, should be allowed. But, those restrictions shouldn't interfere with the ability to work with the core technology being work with.

Independent efforts, more often than not, are not as effective as efforts made in conjunction with a community working on different aspects of the same problem. That effect can be multiplied if there are several communities working on it from different angles. It allows some communities to hone to a particular aspect that it's more relevant for them, while other work on other areas.

All the while, people would trust science and technology a lot more if they can see what's going on and are given the opportunity to see what's going on. Support could be more easily harnessed, in a variety of ways, if more people can do so by letting them to easily participate in any way they can.

At the end, we can't be interested or support that we don't understand. So, let's open science and technology to all.

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