So too with entities such as ISWorld Net. We are all used to an academic world of archival journals or books. Put them on the shelf and leave them forever, or at least until the next edition. But this new thing is different. Links wear out, typos and spelling errors must be corrected, and servers are closed, destroyed, or moved.
Health care becomes an increasingly serious issue as the organism grows older.
The Tragedy of the Commons Another scary metaphor. If we don't tweak the reward system and if professional responsibility is not quickly extended to helping to build the network, we run a very real risk of a shared resource being unfairly shared and therefore destroyed. Every professional. journal, conference, university, research group, sub-research group, educational program, etc. seems to be building WWW infrastructure. I am not sure. I feel like the deer in the night who is trying hard to leap across the highway and there are so many headlights flashing in the night that I stop, transfixed, unable to move in any meaningful direction.