Trendspotting September 12, 2007 Richard Akerman

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

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

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

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

I learned about the future from Star Trek

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

Trends Science Library Technology Scholarly Publishing

Science

Library Technology

Scholarly Publishing

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

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

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”

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”

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 /

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 /