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Reference Future-Present

Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in future, libraries and reference. 0 Comments

As reference content continues to be reimagined in increasingly dynamic ways—with immediacy, multimedia, and social networking at the fore—it is more than just evolving. It is getting wholly reinvented, by all. Library Journal asked reference publishers and librarians to share their expectations for the future by coining their own definition of the term Reference 3.0. Their replies challenge and inspire.

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Google’s View on the Future of Business: An Interview with CEO Eric Schmidt

Published by rwatstein November 9th, 2008 in future, corporations and Google. 0 Comments

In a compelling video interview, Google CEO Eric Schmidt reflects on the coming transformation of strategy, competition, business models, and management. (To hear the interview you must “launch the interactive” link.)

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Top Ten Forecasts for 2009 and Beyond

Published by rwatstein October 25th, 2008 in future and trends. 0 Comments

Each year since 1985, the editors of The Futurist have selected the most thought-provoking ideas and forecasts appearing in the magazine to go into our annual Outlook report. Over the years, Outlook has spotlighted the emergence of such epochal developments as the Internet, virtual reality, and the end of the Cold War. Here are the editors’ top 10 forecasts from Outlook 2009: 1. Everything you say and do will be recorded by 2030

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Q & A: Futurist Ray Kurzweil

Published by rwatstein August 31st, 2008 in future and innovation. 0 Comments

The author caught up with the visionary inventor at SpeechTek 2008, where he talked with InformationWeek about speech technology, his new cellphone reading machine, and two new movie projects.

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Future Proof Your Library

Published by rwatstein August 31st, 2008 in future, libraries and library services. 0 Comments

Library Journal tapped its Movers & Shakers for their insights on what libraries can do to better themselves and fortify against future threats. They talk marketing, flexibility, service, expertise, design thinking, openness, public trust, and far more. Their responses may be surprising—but also enlightening and motivating.

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Waiting for the Internet Meltdown

Published by rwatstein July 12th, 2008 in future and internet. 0 Comments

The world is running out of Internet Protocol addresses, the numbers that denote individual devices connected to the internet. The available addresses have already been allocated, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts we will have run out completely by early 2011. Every day, thousands of new devices ranging from massive web servers down to individual mobile phones go online and gobble up more combinations and permutations.

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Future of Libraries Panel Urges Faster Change

Published by rwatstein July 5th, 2008 in future and libraries. 0 Comments

Panelists at the ALA annual conference session sponsored by the Office of Information Technology Policy of the ALA Washington Office on the future of libraries and librarians offered both positive and negative takes on what might be in store. Speakers included consultant Joan Frye Williams, SirsiDynix’s Stephen Abrams, and library educator José-Marie Griffiths. Williams believes “we’re going to be in the ideas business,” rather than the “objects” business, and thinks there’s a huge untapped potential to serve baby boomers, “as a way to keep your brain alive.”

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Looking Into The Work-Trend Crystal Ball

Published by rwatstein July 5th, 2008 in future and trends. 0 Comments

A new report forecasting the top 10 workplace trends of the future says video and Web conferencing will make business travel extinct while social networking sites and other Web 2.0 technologies emerge as the primary tools for job recruiting. Is your organization ready to support these and other workplace trends? Or maybe you’re already making these shifts.

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The Future of The Web

Published by rwatstein June 29th, 2008 in future, innovation and internet. 0 Comments

Technology Review magazine asked technology innovators, luminaries, and users what the Web might be in five to ten years.

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The Future of Futurology

Published by rwatstein January 12th, 2008 in future. 0 Comments

So there you are on the moon, reading The World in 2008 on disposable digital paper and waiting for the videophone to ring. But no rush, because you’re going to live for ever—and if you don’t, there’s a backed-up copy of your brain for downloading to your clone. Yes? No? Well, that’s how the 21st century looked to some futurologists 40 or 50 years ago, and they’re having a hard time living it down now. You can still get away (as we do) with predicting trends in the world next year, but push the timeline out much further, and you might as well wear a T-shirt saying “crackpot”. Besides, since the West began obsessing a generation ago about accelerating social and technological change, people in government and industry can spend weeks each year in retreats brainstorming and scenario-building about the future of their company or their industry or their world. The only thing special about a futurologist is that he or she has no other job to do.

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