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TechForum 2004: Looking at Dead & Emerging Technologies
Darlene Fichterhttp://library.usask.ca/~fichter/
Data Library Coordinator, U of S Library
Dead and emerging technologies
Fear & technology– Futurists– Some “Dead”– Some “Emerging”
William Gibson’s Observation
“the future is already here,
it’s just unevenly distributed”
What do the futurists say?
George GilderChairman of Great Barrington, Mass.-based Gilder Publishing, is
also a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute
Ray Kurzweil Inventor of, among other things, music synthesizers and a
reading machine for the blind
Jaron LanierComputer scientist, artist and virtual reality pioneer (he coined
the term virtual reality)
Darwin Magazine, May 2002
George Gilder
What's the most dangerous part of the car?The nut behind the wheel
Ray Kurzweil
Not willing to “label” anything, but …– Biotechnology and nanotechnology are
exponentially more powerful than any technology of the past
– Nanotechnology -- the creation of tiny, intelligent self-replicating devices
Millipede Chip - A way of storing a terabit of data on a chip no bigger than a postage stamp has been developed by IBM.
Jaron Lanier
20th century, one-way mass media, such as radio and TV, because it can incite mass violence– 21st century, smart mobs?
Integration of IT and biotechnology
Transplant?
Chip designed to replace the hippocampus - part of the brain used to store memories
Cyborg Cybrary
www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993488
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
How do you know that the sky is falling, Chicken Little?" asked Henny Penny
"I saw it with my eyes, I heard it with my ears, and a bit of it fell on my head," said Chicken Little
The Internet is dead!
It’s everywhere– Spam– Viruses
Any RSS fans out there?
Any email users with Eudora, or antiquarian email programs?
Nature’s answer
Biodiversity– Think about it
What do I think is waning?
Laptops are for weight lifters
Barcodes
Library cards
One exception
Michael Sauers
www.webpan.com/msauers/libdir/cards/
What do I think is waxing?
Links rule, social software
Fear of links? 1999“While professional journalists turn up their noses,
weblog pioneers invent a new, personal way to organize the Web's chaos.”
www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/1999/05/28/weblogs/
Broadband home: armchair revolutionUltimate jukebox has every
– song ever recorded– move ever made– game ever created– ? Every book …
Infinite televisionEarly adopters: 12,500 songs,125 hours of video (300
gigabytes) on tap
www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.01/wiredhome_1.html
“Broadband library”?
Digital library for the “have nots”Or full circle?
– Institutions of learningMedia literacyTrusted advisors
Bugs = Scarry?
Richard Scarry
•Taught us to love technology, tools and trucks
Fear of technology
Did you know that the Stimulus-Response conditioning can be reversed?
Human Interface
Technology – HIT Lab
Technology reducing fear?
Cyberhand
Thank you