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Scientific publishing is still organized around bundles built for print. We use music’s shift from albums to streaming to argue why access and unbundling aren’t enough. Shared standards are the missing layer for reusable, trustworthy science. articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/how...

Yeah, tried in a few spots to point that out, but maybe not hard enough. Streaming is not a model science should copy wholesale, and certainly not arguing that science should “be Spotify.”

What I think is worth learning from is the structural shift: modularity changed how value moved through the system, for better and for worse. It made new things possible, but the outcomes depended on who controlled the infrastructure and how incentives were set.

This is exactly why this matters for science **now**. We have a chance to apply some hind/foresight and to build modularity with open standards, author ownership, and public-good governance, rather than retrofitting those concerns after the fact.