%A Stevan Harnad %J i in the Sky: Visions of the information future %T The Future of Scholarly Skywriting %X Skywriting offers a hybrid possibility, not quite like anything that came before it: much closer to the live interactive tempo of spontaneous on-line speech (and hence on-line thought), yet retaining all the virtues of the written medium (formality, discipline, objectivity, publicity, corrigibility permanence). %K PostGutenberg Galaxy, Skywriting, refereed literature, electronic publication, %P 216-218 %D 1999 %I Aslib/IMI %L cogprints1698