The document discusses the perspectives of the author as a data producer, overseer of data curation efforts, database provider, and data user. The author argues that open data is important for enabling new discoveries. However, data repositories currently make accessing and using data difficult. The author's vision for 2020 is for biological questions to be answered by operating on data in a simpler, more productive and reproducible manner. This will require improvements like a data registry and an "App+" store model.