How to Bring Science Publishing into the 21st Century

The paradox of 21^st-century science is that increasingly complex and collaborative cutting-edge research is still being written and published using 20^th-century tools.

The essential question—How come the internet age has yet to deliver a collaborative writing and publishing tool for research?—is what two of my physicist friends and I were thinking about several years ago while working at CERN, before we started Authorea.