This document discusses trends in science, libraries, and scholarly publishing. It notes important anniversaries for technologies like VisiCalc, Google, and Star Trek. Large science projects like the Large Hadron Collider and sequencing the human genome are mentioned. For libraries, trends include open source integrated library systems and user-created content. In scholarly publishing, open access is growing and publications are becoming more data-rich with search and visualization capabilities.

1. Trendspotting September 12, 2007 Richard Akerman

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

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

4. I learned about the future from Star Trek

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

6. Trends Science Library Technology Scholarly Publishing

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

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”

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 /