3. Spread of electricity
Power plants
Houses
Sleep patterns changed
24 hour work
Decoration
4.
5. Wireless
Available outside of home/office
Smartphones
Mini computer
24 hour access
Maps
Less talking
Data doubled in one year
Voice increased by 1%
6. 2000
2 Million payphones
110,000 cell phone
subscribers
2012
500,000 payphones.
321 Million mobile
subscribers
US population 313.9 Million
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9. As technology emerges it changes society
Society evolves with the technology
The library evolves with society
10.
11. Lightsaber Holo / Arca Jeth
Do or Do Not Lightsaber Techniques / Yoda
Midi-chlorians: Physiology, Physics
& the Force / Qui-Gon Jin
Unauthorized lightsaber use…
Master Nu, Librarian contacted
12. Bexar County Texas
All digital library
10,000 Titles
600 e-readers
200 pre-loaded enhanced e-readers
48 computer stations
10 laptops
40 on site tablets
19. "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The
most certain way to succeed is always to try
just one more time.“
-Thomas Edison
Notas do Editor
light and fire had always been the same thing. So when the electric light comes along, here's something that doesn't smoke. Here's something that doesn't burn any oxygen. It doesn't seem to burn out. It doesn't have any of the characteristics that we associate with fire. And for those people who saw it, they said, "This violates the natural order. This is not the way light is supposed to be." After Edison, light and fire are always going to be separate, and that's a major shift in the way people see things. In 1880 in New York City, Edison set about installing the first commercial electric utility. It was in a cheap waterfront building near Wall Street. This first central station would provide power to a square-mile area which included some very wealthy and influential customers –J.P. Morgan, the Stock Exc