Articles frequently contain no new ideas whatsoever, or else their ideas are presented in such an extensive manner as to obscure the degree of actual innovation.
Many ideas lack definite authors, and many authors lack definite ideas.
Thus is created a mechanism of intellectual blockage. It is necessary to create a more flexible system of preservation and dissemination of ideas, one that could reflect the uninterrupted process of producing new knowledge, the uninterruptedness of cognitive reality itself. Intelnet could be of substantial help in correcting this situation, by offering new life to those good ideas which are currently foundering and by giving initial impulse to the creation of further innovations through the Bank of New Ideas. The humanities, as compared with natural and social sciences, remain in a difficult situation which demands prompt resolution, since the very criteria for identifying and evaluating ideas are far from clear, yet are virtually never discussed. The goal of this pre-electronic Bank was to foster the development of new methods of thinking in interdisciplinary areas of contemporary culture, to provide the conditions for formulating, shaping and disseminating original ideas, moving at the junctures of different disciplines and types of social consciousness.