Get a timeline view of important technology trends and get a glimpse into the future of technology that is impacting libraries.

2. Agenda
• Highlight the most successful and useful
technology trends impacting librarians.
• Discuss what is just over the horizon.
• Have fun!

3. 2400 BC – Abacus was invented
300 BC – Binary number system
1280 – eyeglasses
1450 – Gutenberg printing press
1989 – WWW is born
1995 – Netscape IPO, Amazon opens, Windows95
1997 – PalmPilot
1998 – iMac, Google search
1999 – Napster
2001 – iPod
2002 – Roomba
2003 – BlackBerry 6210, Skype, iTunes Music Store
2004 – Razr, Gmail
2005 – first YouTube video “Me at the Zoo.”
2006 – Facebook for general public, Wii
2007 – iPhone, Netflix, Kindle, Twitter
2008 – Android OS
2009 – Kickstarter
2010 – iPad, Wikileaks
2011 – Square
2012 – Google Glass
2013 – Pebble Smart Watch, Edward Snowden
2014 – Sony hack (The Interview), AppleWatch
2015 - ?

5. Deep learning - brain-inspired systems capable of translating pixels into English.
Smart virtual personal assistants - semantic and natural language processing; data
mined from our calendars, email, and contact lists; and the last few minutes of our
behavior to anticipate the next 10 seconds of our thinking. Amazon Echo!
“It’s like Uber for ____” – the simple app connecting drivers to passengers is now
worth more than Halliburton Corporation, Aetna, General Mills, Delta Airlines, Kraft
Foods, and Charles Schwab.
Oversight for algorithms - Time to discuss how to include accountability systems
for algorithms.
Data privacy - people are increasingly concerned about their privacy, and they’re
pointing the finger at business, not maleficent hackers.
Block chain technology – the transaction database that’s shared by everyone
participating in bitcoin’s digital system.
An intellectually refreshing list of technology trends to watch for in 2015
Source: http://goo.gl/Vo338Z

6. Google Deep Dream
Artificial Neural
Networks are doing
image classification and
speech recognition now.

7. Deep learning - brain-inspired systems capable of translating pixels into English.
Smart virtual personal assistants - semantic and natural language processing; data
mined from our calendars, email, and contact lists; and the last few minutes of our
behavior to anticipate the next 10 seconds of our thinking. Amazon Echo!
“It’s like Uber for ____” – the simple app connecting drivers to passengers is now
worth more than Halliburton Corporation, Aetna, General Mills, Delta Airlines, Kraft
Foods, and Charles Schwab.
Oversight for algorithms - Time to discuss how to include accountability systems
for algorithms.
Data privacy - people are increasingly concerned about their privacy, and they’re
pointing the finger at business, not maleficent hackers.
Block chain technology – the transaction database that’s shared by everyone
participating in bitcoin’s digital system.
An intellectually refreshing list of technology trends to watch for in 2015
Source: http://goo.gl/Vo338Z

9. http://www.evolveproject.org/ces
http://www.techlicious.com/ces-2015/
It is nice to learn about this, but it can be stretching a bit to find a
place in libraries for most of these products.

10. Amazing!
Source: http://goo.gl/AY7bAa
Truly Mind-blowing!

12. Mobile has won and is becoming modular!
Streaming has won and vinyl still exists!
Does this matter to librarians?

13. Ownership vs. access
• Experiences are more important than
ownership, right?
• Do e-books matter?
• Net Neutrality?
• Curation?
• Librarian role?

14. Images http://goo.gl/msSaF http://goo.gl/6oEYRX
Will wearable computing really take off?

15. Virtual Reality on your desktop!
More info: http://goo.gl/9E6RAk

17. Build your own!
More information: http://goo.gl/HPkmVa

18. Oculus Rift and Leap Motion

19. Read more at http://libraries.pewinternet.org/
Most of the Pew Reports state that
Americans value the role of libraries in
their communities, so I predict libraries will
exist well into the future. ;)

20. Data theft/spying will
get worse before it gets
any better!
What is the librarian’s role?

21. Consider: LastPass and 2-step authentication at a minimum
Coming soon: biometrics
Image http://goo.gl/OAQhv9

22. https://blackphone.ch/phone/
https://www.torproject.org/

23. Internet of Things
An estimated 4.9 billion Internet-connected devices, from thermostats to slow-cookers, will
be in use in 2015, according to Gartner Inc. (source http://goo.gl/LmR7CE)
Image http://goo.gl/jTxAXJ

24. The Internet of Things (IoT) + IFTTT = Powerful
Amazon Echo “listens” to IFFT statements!

25. http://ifttt.com/

26. News alert! Makerspaces aren’t just about 3D printing!

29. The cool thing about
Makerspaces is that you
will have a space to
include interesting
technologies that are
NOT even invented yet.
Perpetual Beta!

30. Are social networks REALLY about connecting with people? Are we presenting anything
meaningful or is the general public becoming mindless automatons reposting the “news” over
and over again? Are we being pulled into “like behavior?” Pretty soon we’ll have thought
bubbles floating over our head and there will be no mystery to our lives.

31. https://ello.co/wtf/post/manifesto

32. Uber/Lyft
Zipcar
Bikesharing
Tool Shares
Vacations
Image: http://goo.gl/rwNGnt

33. Digital Assistants
Image source: http://goo.gl/obFOfu

34. http://www.livescribe.com/

35. Mini-computers
in libraries?

36. Gamifying our gaming club!

37. Images: http://goo.gl/Bj4lTk

38. Mask was 3D printed and LEDs were installed in the Innovation Lab

39. Circulating iLab

41. Drones!
Watch the Drone Demonstration at the Innovation Lab
[Makerspace@SPC] -- http://goo.gl/nPHV9B

42. Hololens

43. CROWDSOURCING

44. www.periscope.tv
Video discovery/sharing in the library?
Why or why not?

45. Image: http://goo.gl/q9NFzx
Beacons use battery-friendly, low-energy Bluetooth connections to transmit
messages or prompts directly to a smartphone or tablet.
Read about libraries using beacon technology: http://goo.gl/OUIUrJ

47. Source: http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/
New Media Consortium
Sparking innovation, learning, and creativity!

48. http://www.psfk.com/
http://techcrunch.com/
http://mashable.com/

49. What else should be on this list?
Real-time collaborative notebook available at: http://bit.ly/NovareTech
What technologies excite you?
What should not be on this list?
What would you like to see invented?

50. http://www.slideshare.net/chadmairn
@cmairn
Real-time collaborative notebook available at: http://bit.ly/NovareTech

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iLab@spcollege.edu
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