Monday, June 16, 2008

and the White Knight is talking backwards


Sometimes I like reading tattered fragments from the before time about the future of libraries. Like this piece by Dr. Wendy Schultz Infinite Futures:

Library 4.0 … will be the library for the aesthetic economy, the dream society, which will need libraries as mind gyms … Both virtual and augmented 3D reality will enable us to manipulate data via immersive, visual, metaphorical, sculptural, holographic information theatres…


Nothing like the end of the world to derail your plans for a library where reference transactions are carried out through interpretive dancing. Would it have killed these people to stay focused on the real issues of their time? Oh wait, it did.

Speaking of which, I don’t know what a wellington is or why it needs to be managed, but thanks to wellington manager for sharing this:

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