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Throughout its existence JCOM has earned a special recognition as a space of confluence for the international community of science communicators, but how should be its immediate future? Here are some ideas inspired by which Italo Calvino’s suggested as the main characteristics for the literature of the 21 st century, hoping to have a JCOM light, rapid, accurate, visible, multiple, consistent and comprehensive. To response to the generous invitation to imagine the immediate future of our Journal of Science Communication (JCOM), it is necessary to recognize that — since several years ago — JCOM has earned a place among the major publications we consulted to improve our work, and also represents where we meet our colleagues, the common to have our best conversations. I also need to remember the origin of the verb «to imagine», related to the Latin voice imitari. So we can say that the imagination has a lot to see with «imitate» a real figure, but transforming it. So, we can imagine the next few years’ future of JCOM looking at its present and suggesting that it must to be transformed around to its readers, who are the real reason for its existence. I would like a JCOM making a commitment to read and readers. I would like a journal as a symbol of a great moment of reading as exciting, enjoyable and challenging to enable one or more re-readings, involving articles that are likely to be used in my daily work as a communicator of science and texts that encourage reflection about science as one of the essential elements of culture, reviewing both the results of scientific research as well as social attitudes toward science. This requires a JCOM as an implementation of its contents, a truly example of the richness that characterizes scientific communication recreating science through metaphors, models and images. There is a work by Italo Calvino that has been cited over and over again but now is relevant, if we have in mind that the fabulous Italian writer was greatly interested in science: Six Memos for the Next Millenium, which is a defence of the main features that literature should be kept in the immediate future, according to him: Lightness, Quickness, exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity and Consistency. I would like to imagine the future of JCOM accompanied by Calvino, and adding a new one element: Integration.

Seven memos for the next JCOM