Research communication has remained broadly unchanged for more than 350 with the research paper and monograph still as the central mechanisms that facilitate the dissemination and discussion of research. However, as data quantities have risen the nature of research has changed - papers cannot encapsulate everything that is needed to discuss research in a meaningful way; research is more iterative; data processing methodology plays a larger role. At the same time, with the advent of the internet, communications technologies have also moved on, yet we still consume research as an electronic analog of a paper - a PDF. In this talk we explore where scholarly communication is going, what infrastructures are being built and what might be possible over the next few years.