There is a significant part of the scientific community who feels concerned about the future of science infrastructure. In the term science infrastructure I include:

• science institutions (universities, research organisations, companies)
• research facilities (labs, offices, buildings, equipment)
• talent (people)
• communication (conferences, journals, papers, peer review)
• funding (grants, grant proposal writing, government funding)

This topic is about the communication part. However, the way to improve this is not abstractly promoting communication and collaboration. Scientific communication and infrastructure for communication in science are absolutely vital and core components of how science works: unless we communicate effectively what knowledge we have discovered, we are bound to re-discover it.

We might that maybe it's fine, some inefficiency always exists, doesn't it? I claim no: this is not about inefficiency. If we can’t utilise what exists, we’ll never be able to build on top of what others discover.

Isolated discoveries mean no knowledge accumulation which eventually leads to the breakdown of the global science machinery.

Many paths and approaches to fix this, open to discussion.