[tiger10guy]

Eventually, academic papers should be interactive because taking advantage of electronic media can communicate so much more.

See this talk on "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable" by Brett Victor: http://vimeo.com/67076984

There still have to be a bunch of changes before we get there.

[daureg]

What about the other way around: making LaTeX documents more interactive. One can fill forms in pdf or embed javascript, see for instance this motor animation made with tikz: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/wankel-motor/

[marcosdumay]

I agree with your general statement, but I completely disagree with anybody implying that the correct time is now or just a few years in the future.

We do not know how to use interactive documents well.