The Future is Already Here

The Future is Already Here Jason Griffey Western Kentucky University Library August 24, 2011

The future is already here...

The future is already here... ...it just isn’t very evenly distributed. - William Gibson

Traditional Library Roles

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Experiences becomeExpectations

“In education, this means the end ofthe one-way passing along ofknowledge to students. For theyalready live in a “ﬁeld” of knowledgecreated by new media which, thoughdifferent in kind, is yet far richer andmore complex than any ever taughtvia traditional curricula.”

Services

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Access

42.1% of all Internet trafﬁc at UTC was streaming media

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Digital Divide

The Future

“When your old world is collapsing andeverything is changing at a furious pitch,to start announcing your preferences forold values is not the act of a seriousperson.It is frivolous, fatuous...

...If you were to knock on the door of one ofthese critics and say “Sir, there are ﬂamesleaping out of your roof, your house isburning,” under these conditions he wouldthen say to you, “That’s a very interestingpoint of view. Personally, I couldn’t disagreewith you more.”...

...That’s all these critics are saying. Theirhouse is burning and they’re saying, “Don’tyou have any sense of values, simplytelling people about ﬁre when you shouldbe thinking about the serious content, thenoble works of the mind?”Value is irrelevant.”

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Masatoshi Ishikawa

moving forward

“The movement of information atapproximately the speed of light hasbecome by far the largest industry of theworld. The consumption of thisinformation has become correspondinglythe largest consumer function in theworld...

...The globe has become on one hand acommunity of learning, and at the sametime...the globe has become a tiny village.Patterns of human association based onslower media have become overnight notonly irrelevant and obsolete, but a threat tocontinued existence and to sanity.”

Marshall McLuhanMcCluhan Hot & Cool 1967

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Douglas Adams said...

Douglas Adams said...1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

Douglas Adams said...1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re ﬁfteen and thirty-ﬁve is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

Douglas Adams said...1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

If I’d askedthem what theywanted, they’dhave said afaster horse. - Henry Ford

The best way to predict the future is to create it. -Peter Drucker

thank you

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