Trendspotting

Slide 1: Trendspotting September 12, 2007 Richard Akerman

Slide 2: Crossing the Gap • We live in the current state • But we must plan for the target state • We do this all the time • But where is my flying car? • Cultural change can be fast

Slide 3: Some important anniversaries • 2009: 30 Years of VisiCalc • September 15, 2007: 10 Years of Google.com • September 28, 2007: 20 Years of Star Trek: Next Generation • 2027: 30 Years of Google • 2034: 30 Years of Facebook • 2035: 30 Years of YouTube

Slide 4: I learned about the future from Star Trek

Slide 5: I learned about the present from Steve Jobs image Copyright © 2007 Apple Inc.

Slide 6: Trends • Science • Library Technology • Scholarly Publishing

Slide 7: Science • Data and computation intensive science – Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) • Bioinformatics – Sequence your own genome • Craig Venter • MyDaughtersDNA.org • Economist article – Proteome, Microbiome

Slide 8: Library Technology • ALA LITA Top Tech Trends for Libraries – LITA blog, LITA.org, Bookism report – Open source ILS – User created content, peer production, participative web, Web 2.0 – “live where your users are”

Slide 9: Scholarly Publishing • The march of Open Access continues, with much debate • CIHR Policy on Access to Research Outputs • Increasing calls for more semantically-rich publications and • Data-based search and visualisation – http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ – http://chemgate.emolecules.com/ • Use of video – Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) – http://bioscreencast.com/ – http://www.scivee.tv/ – http://www.planet-scicast.com/