I am not so certain that is the only future. If you work in natural science today in probably any field, you are simply overwelmed by the number of new papers comming out every day. So this kind of tool can be quite useful to follow developments in sufficient detail, and still find time to work on your own stuff. On the other hand, it could help scientiest write more information dense papers and not waste their time on filler words, paragraphs, ad hoc motivation and similar, as no one will read those anyway.