Refreshing Take on Technology Trends (MLGSCA/NCNMLG 2010)

David Rothman http://davidrothman.net [email_address] (315) 876-9574

Today’s Themes
Everyone is wrong
I am also probably wrong …and a narcissist
We live in the future

Cheerleaders!

- Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 - October 5, 2003)
“ I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. However, it is possible for us to learn how to control our own uses of technology “

Example: Joe Murphy http://www.slideshare.net/joseph.murphy/presentations

” Libraries that don’t offer texting are basically invisible to me.” http://tinyurl.com/3972jv

Joe likes: -Text Messaging -His iPhone -Twitter

“ Today’s patrons expect information in the palm of their hand…cell phones are their primary interface” “ Social Networking Literacy Competencies for Librarians” I’m pretty sure I’m a lot like Joe I think Joe mistakes his own interests for broadly-adopted trends

DSM-IV-TR = 301.81 ICD-10 = F60.8 (Other specific personality disorders ) DSM-IV-TR = 301.81 ICD-10 = F60.8 (Other specific personality disorders ) Narcissistic personality disorder Narcissistic personality disorder

IBM 5496 Keypunch machine

IBM System/3's Multi-Function Card Unit (MFCU)

http://www.2spare.com/_media/imgs/articles/a155_a1g.jpg c.1979 ~$667.00 per Megabyte (MB) Adjusted in 21 st -century dollars: $ 1,953.00 per MB

4 GB (4096 MG) Sony USB Flash Drive Cost: ~$18.00 Less than $0.005 per MB 1979 Prices/21 st -century Dollars: $2.7 Million

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_PH3340.html IBM 3340 Direct Access Storage Facility

“… a soda can full of those cards could hold the entire iTunes store's music library.” http://xkcd.com/691/

iTunes has about 11 Million tracks.

i live in the future

MEDLINE®, 1972 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajmexico/4118373262/ Bleeding edge network technology

Download Speed (characters/second)

“ I hate PubMed. I hate it with a burning passion. For a site that is as vital to scientific progress as PubMed is, their search engine is shamefully bad. It’s embarrassingly, frustratingly, painfully bad.” -Anna Kushnir, Harvard PhD Candidate

http://davidrothman.net/2008/03/31/when-the-user-actually-is-broken-anna-kushnir-and-pubmed/ http://tinyurl.com/bvs7qr

i live in the future

Android | Chrome | HTML5

: : Mobile Desktop

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thaths/35539388/ paper

http://www.ondemandbooks.com/

“ Bundling songs into long-playing albums lowered the production, marketing, and distribution costs because there were fewer records to make, ship, shelve, categorize, alphabetize, and inventory. As soon as music went digital, we learned that the natural unit of music is the track.”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanchirnomas/2125946902/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30932092@N02/2898501127/

http://pubget.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/librarianbyday/4174465176/

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Refreshing Take on Technology Trends (MLGSCA/NCNMLG 2010)

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