[canofbars]

I'm not a physicist or even a researcher of anything but I sometimes watch youtube videos of people experimenting with material sciences and chemistry and a trend I have seen is that even things that we consider to be very basic have a huge lack of good quality information available.

One youtuber I saw spends time looking at new research papers for ideas and has found that they are just impossible to reproduce. Following the steps exactly as well as every possible variation doesn't produce anything close to the results described in the paper. In another video [0] he attempts to make glass and finds that almost all of the information available on the internet about making glass is not enough to actually make glass since they contain only enough information to register a patent but not enough to make from scratch.

I wonder if we will see huge gains by just making complete and unobfiscated information available to the public since it looks like even the foundations of society are secret company internal information.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUcUy7SqdS0

[sph]

The world should have a "crafting" wiki, which explains how to build anything from scratch.

From how to make glass from sand to how to build a quantum computer.

[foobar1962]

Would the crafting wiki contain instructions for crafting the wiki itself?

(An attempt at humour referencing the "set of all sets" paradox. That is all, as you were.)

[phobosanomaly]

The Whole Earth Catalog ceased publication in 1971. The Whole Mars Catalog however............