1. Change is another word for opportunity
libraries, technology, and the next decade
Mid-TN Regional Workshop
March 28, 2013
Jason Griffey
Head of Library Information Technology
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

2. Living in the
Science Fiction Condition
Crazy Near Future Technologies That Will Change Everything
Mid TN Tech Summit
March 28, 2013
Jason Griffey
Head of Library Information Technology
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

3. everything is amazing...
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5. Photo by Kradlum - http://flic.kr/p/NqGXm
Three Laws of Technology

6. Moore’s Law
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7. Koomey’s Law
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8. Photo by futureshape - http://flic.kr/p/byVYjK
Metcalfe’s Law

10. Visions of the Future

11. Stross’
Extrapolation
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/08/how-low-power-can-you-go.html

12. Photo by Eric Fischer - http://flic.kr/p/87P7QM

13. Gabe Newell

15. Mike Abrash

17. Valve: How I Got Here,
What It’s Like, and What I’m Doing
http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-what-its-like-
and-what-im-doing-2/

18. By “wearable computing” I mean mobile
computing where both computer-generated
graphics and the real world are seamlessly
overlaid in your view; there is no separate
display that you hold in your hands (think
Terminator vision). The underlying trend as
we’ve gone from desktops through laptops
and notebooks to tablets is one of having
computing available in more places, more of
the time.

19. The logical endpoint is computing
everywhere, all the time – that is, wearable
computing – and I have no doubt that 20
years from now that will be standard,
probably through glasses or contacts, but for
all I know through some kind of more direct
neural connection.

20. And I’m pretty confident that platform shift
will happen a lot sooner than 20 years –
almost certainly within 10, but quite likely as
little as 3-5 because the key areas – input,
3-5,
processing/power/size, and output – that need
to evolve to enable wearable computing are
shaping up nicely, although there’s a lot still to
be figured out.

21. Vernor Vinge

24. Photo by Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/11/lumus-see-through-wearable-
display-hands-on/

33. sensors everywhere

37. • Mio Alpha
• Fitbug Orb
• LG Smart Activity Tracker
• GeoPalz iBitz
• Bodymedia
• Nike+ Fuelband
• Jawbone Up

40. autonomous robots
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45. http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669200/flying-swarm-of-robots-gives-protesters-and-activists-free-wi-fi-on-the-go

46. http://www.darwinaerospace.com/burritobomber

47. Possible Futures
for Libraries
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48. Photo by Cam Incoll - http://flic.kr/p/4ZhFpf
Every Book a Node

49. Libraries
as
Privacy Spaces
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50. Libraries
as
Data Hubs
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51. Libraries
as
Archival Units
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53. Libraries
as
Activists
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54. conclusions

55. Douglas Adams said...
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re
born is normal and ordinary and is just a
natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when
you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and
exciting and revolutionary and you can
probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five
is against the natural order of things.

56. We look at the present through a
rear-view mirror.
We march backwards into the future.
--Marshall McLuhan
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57. What’s Past is Prologue...
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58. Ellis’
Projection
How to See the Future
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14314

59. Photo by Brett Kiger - http://flic.kr/p/9RRpMQ
Act like you live in the
Science Fiction
Condition.

60. Photo by robert.barney - http://flic.kr/p/4JGHGN

61. Jason
Griffey
jasongriffey.net
423-443-4770
@griffey
ALA TechSource
Head of Library Information Technology
http://pinboard.in/u:griffey/ University of Tennessee at Chattanooga