TECH
TechLearn2009
Cliff Landis
clifflandis.net

Our ability to
create is that
which makes
us uniquely,
wonderfully
human.
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http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-04-11/

Genes
Those selfish little buggers!
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Look at life from the
perspective of a grain of rice…
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•Variation
•Selection
•Replication

Memes
www.flickr.com/photos/62183326@N00/2092969737

I can haz
lolspeak?
www.flickr.com/photos/91525158@N00/405077635

http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-
phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots
or of building arches. Just as genes propagate
themselves in the gene pool by leaping from
body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes
propagate themselves in the meme pool by
leaping from brain to brain via a process
which, in the broad sense, can be called
imitation.” -- Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976)

Look at how we organize books…
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But why not by color?
www.flickr.com/photos/41894194320@N01/839927986

Unfortunately, bad ideas (and memes)
don’t die easily
www.flickr.com/photos/35034347820@N01/172257764

Temes
(technological memes)

•Variation
•Selection
•Replication

TEME THEMES

Teaching the Machine
http://recaptcha.net/ http://www.slideshare.net/misteroo/all-about-google-presentation

Robotics

Where’s my vodka-tonic-bot?
(and my leisure suit?)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sots/1271028593/

Well, it’s a start…
www.flickr.com/photos/29904699@N00/252196607

Okay, so
maybe they
don’t start out
cute….
www.flickr.com/photos/8769295@N07/2340640371 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

Human – Computer Interaction
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/7-high-tech-cell-phones-you-
cant-buy
http://www.slashgear.com/lg-prada-ii-and-prada-link-bluetooth-watch-launch-
1823215/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lambdachialpha/252434317/

Perceptive Pixel
http://www.gadgetvenue.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/multi-touch-display.jpg

3D touch display
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20090310/166952/

Augmented Reality
http://www.mobilizy.com/

Augmented
Reality
http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/index.htm

Transhumanism
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/brain.html

www.flickr.com/photos/44124458380@N01/3006293554

Biotech
• Chemically modified
emotions
• Chemically modified
thought processes
• Preventative medicine
• Retarded aging
•Genetic engineering
• Evolution
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Open Source
www.flickr.com/photos/83245449@N00/39036635

Technology
is People!
www.flickr.com/photos/71401718@N00/2450438944

Our ability to
create is that
which makes
us uniquely,
wonderfully
human.
www.flickr.com/photos/51035555243@N01/545354106

We will never be able to stop the evolution of
technology, because it is fueled by what makes us human—our
creativity.
www.flickr.com/photos/37165469@N00/371926925

The blood that paid for our mobile phones
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16935515@N00/1353712127

The speed at which we create has far surpassed
the speed at which we understand.
www.flickr.com/photos/13172875@N08/2170448724

Symbiosis
www.flickr.com/photos/73662475@N00/2651957971

What can the library do?
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• Don’t ignore change – engage
& evaluate it.
• Put the library’s users first.
• Enable and encourage the telling of
shared narratives.
• Libraries embody the hope that we can
learn to understand our creations, our
neighbors, and ourselves.

Each of us hold the
candle of creation.
What will we do
with it?
Burn up our world,
and ourselves with
it?
Light the way for
others?
Or help others light
their own candles?
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Thank you.
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