Bombs & Blue Aliens
by David King on Apr 14, 2010
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Dead and emerging technology from a librarian's point of view - part of the dead and emerging tech panel at Computers in Libraries 2010.
Dead and emerging technology from a librarian's point of view - part of the dead and emerging tech panel at Computers in Libraries 2010.
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Hurt locker = what’s bombed, or is bombing. What’s going away ASAP? what should we consider dead tech?
Avatar = what’s too cool for school? Amazing, will change what we do ... once we figure out what to do with it?
This is my goal, in 10 minutes or so ...
Normal phones - who here doesn’t own one anymore?
Who uses skype, a free/cheap flavor of voip at home instead? Or just cellphones?
Did it feel a bit ...
No real livestreaming to speak of, primetime coverage ... well, I knew who the winners were because of twitter - real live people already watched it, and tweeted it.
Anyone love the long commercial breaks?
We also borrow from the library, from Redbox, from iTunes... Normal TV? Only the Olympics.
CD or DVD storage? I never really did this.
Recently discovered that, though I own a ton of these, I don’t really use them anymore.
How do I port stuff, back up my presentations for this session, etc?
Much easier, don’t have to deal with a tiny piece of equipment that I can lose.
It’s easy to make fun of apple, is it not?
Wow. Lots of them.
Would you set up your desktop by your chopping board? Probably not.
But a tablet, following along with a chef’s youtube video? probably so.
I’m thinking there are a ton of non-normal-PC uses for a tablet. Think about all the things those original hinged 10-lb tablet PCs were supposed to do ... but really didn’t ...
I think those things are about to be done. Even if we’re not quite sure what to do with the things yet!
Apps! Seriously, apps make my smartphone much more useful than a normal, non-apped device!
We want them! Bad! But do we know what to build? I’m not so sure.
There’s the obvious stuff, like a library catalog app. Or some type of library databases app.
Boy, that’s exciting!
It’s important! But is anyone hiring for that? Not many.
Some say let’s wait for our vendors to do it for us. Think about that for a sec. Are YOU happy with the tech you buy from your vendor? Do your eally want to wait for than to build something based on extremely new tech?
Is this a good thing?
Something that allows customers to tell their stories, and connect to your content to enhance those stories... in a fun, new, mobile way.
Apps are definitely a blue alien win!
The web knows where you are! My phone automatically knows what time it is...