http://nelidavazquez.blogspot.com/2008/12/readings-for-120508.html
http://joysitnotes.blogspot.com/2008/11/unit-14-notes.html
http://emilyfreehling.blogspot.com/2008/12/muddiest-point-week-14.html
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Friday, December 5, 2008
Week 14 Muddiest POint
Am I alone in being really freaked out by Internet technology encroaching on our lives?
Does everyone embrace this?
I read about all the "cool" effects, what about the downsides? Are these taken seriously at all?
week 14 readings
What Cloud Computing Really Means by Galen Gruman
& Explaining Cloud Computing: Youtube with Christopher Barnatt
The future of computers and computing is that we will have blank devices meant for simply accessing everything over the internet. This will work great, except when the Internet goes down, and then these devices will be useless.
SaaS and Haas will give greater flexibility, choice, and better updating to users.
The Future of Libraries: beginning the Great Transformation by Thomas Frey
Frey claims that literacy will be dead by 2050. We will have become a verbal society.
What does this mean? Will we become more stupid?
"What is the ultimate form of communication?" Frey asks. It seems to have something to do with technology, that we will have invisible communication devices. I've often thought that cell phones are a secular way of achieving near-ESP (i.e. being able to contact anyone anywhere).
Perhaps we'll have cell phone implants?
Still, maybe the ultimate form of communication has more to do with how we say what we say, rather than the strategy we employ to carry it.
Internet searches in the future will include smell, taste, speed and velocity. Will I be able to learn what is necessary to become a trusted professional that people will turn to?
"We have more needs faster."
I disagree with the use of the term needs here. We have more strategies and more distractions. Our needs are food, water, shelter. These do not change. Our wants increase exponentially. Our distractions form ourselves also increase.
Libraries will become cultural centers.
I see this happening. The lack of books encourages people to talk more. I hope art, dance, music find places in a library since they seem to be disappearing from home and schools!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
week 13 comments
http://kirstenbell.blogspot.com/2008/11/week-13-readings-and-muddiest-point.html
http://worldsedgelog.blogspot.com/2008/11/notes-on-chapter-10-of-no-place-to-hide.html
http://corrinewxly.blogspot.com/2008/11/week-13-readings.html
Saturday, November 29, 2008
week 13 readings
No Place to Hide:
What a dismal chapter! You know, I do not, and have never, believed that we had to give away privacy or "freedom" in exchange for increased security. the recent attacks in Mumbai just remind me that the US isn't the only target of terrorism. Violence and terrorism is worldwide, and I do believe are not "trying to keep us safe" but are instead gleefully reaping profits by motivating us with fear. I felt sick when I read the quote, "We want you to recognize the economic opportunity that homeland security presents. It is important for all Americans to remember that when the terrorists struck on September 11, 2001, one of their goals was to cripple the U.S. economy. We must remember this and change our mindset to make protecting the homeland a mission that moves our economy forward."
First of all: the use of the word homeland. Only Native Americans can use this word correctly. Only they are indigenous. Next, when people invoke 9/11 to make a profit. This is just wrong.
TIA: ONly if these programs were run perfectly, they might work as intended. But, they are human-created and human-run. The humans who run it will make human decisions and human errors. We will compile huge archives of everyday comings and goings, and while pursuing information in the name of security, many things which are not the business of the government or contractors, and which are still technically protected, will be noted and recorded. In some grey area on some grey day, this information could be used against us, or to control us. At the very worst, we are manipulated and don't know it. At the best, it is creepy that one may someday find out it has been recorded, all the dumb things one did one random day.
Youtube video: has been removed due to copyright claim of Viacom.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Week 11 readings/muddiest point
Deep Web: Michael Bergman
This is an interesting article on 'deep web." I'm still not sure how it gets such a fancy name. I'm still not sure exactly what it is. For example, they listed ebay as a deep-web page. I can get to that via search engine very easily. In the web, it seems that deep web will not look any different than surface web. In fact, all web was deep web until maybe the advent of search engines.
Maybe it is differentiated because search engines can reach only about 16% of the web. It is a shame, because there is 400-550 more times the public information on the deep web. To conclude, I surmise that the deep web is not inaccessible, just not randomly searched. People who use the deep web know where they're going and so don't google it. Though I could be wrong.
Web Search Engines: part 1 /David Hawking
The premise here is that web search engines provide high quality information quickly. They cannot and should not attempt to index the web in its entirety. Indexing begins with a "seed" Url. The search engine can then search inside the seed (ex: topics within wikipedia).
Different search computers search different areas, and forward search requests to the machines that are assigned it. They also make sure that web browsers are not overwhelmed with requests by adding a politeness delay to make sure each request goes in 1 at a time.
Robots do not-recrawl over all the web.
Web search Engines part 2/David Hawking
The vocabulary of the web includes many languages, including new words specific to internet culture, and also includes misspellings and grammatical errors.
Most queries are 2 words long. All query searches include all query words.
Search engines have strategies to speed up searches: they can skip, make lists of decreasing value, assign number scores according to their decreasing value. They can cache: pre-store anticipate search answers.
OAI Protocol for Metadata harvesting:
I think this about metadata and steps taken to be able to comprehensively search it? Seriously, I'm lost.
Muddiest Point: Is there something I'm missing about the deep web? Why is it not linked to search engines?
Could someone explain OAI to me in simple language?
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
Week 10 readings
Digital Libraries: challenges and Influential Work by William Mischo
This is an interesting article explaining the beginnings of research into digital libraries, i.e. having some sort of methodology programmed into how one searches the web (putting the books back on the bookshelf if you will).
From government grants for a few schools with different needs, other institutions have adopted what was done in these studies, and google was born.
Now, the need is to build something akin to Google scholar in digital library form.
Dewey Meets Turing: Libraries, computer Scientists, and the DLI
Hmmm. So, computer scientists and librarians could have gotten along rather well together, systematically organizing a digital library, but the pesky web was born and grew up so fast and stressed the relationship. Enter publishers and computer scientists can no longer make their discoveries open and free, but can only tease their colleagues with their new programs.
Meanwhile, librarians needs are not met and librarians think that computer scientists don't understand them and have forgotten about them, and computer scientists just wish librarians were more like computer scientists!
Institutional Repositories
I agree with the author that it does not make sense to have authors, especially of academic institutions to be in charge of posting their work online and archiving it. This is not their job, and if forced to do it, will often be sub-par to what a centralized, specialized department could do with these works.
I also agree that they can be useful as collectors of ephemera.
But: they cannot claim ownership over a faculty or students work.
And cumbersome gate-keeping policies will be, in the words of the author, counterproductive. The author believes in keeping it simple. Too much policy would undermine its effectiveness.
Also, as important as they are, let us not be too hasty in their implementation, but let us be thoughtful and end up with a useable, sane, repository.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Week 9 (: Blogs where I have posted
http://pittmlis.blogspot.com/2008/10/reading-assignment-9.html
http://iit2600.blogspot.com/2008/10/week-9-muddiest-point.html
http://kirstenbell.blogspot.com/2008/10/week-9-reading-comments.html
Week 9 readings & muddy point
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
blogs where I have posted
Friday, October 10, 2008
week 8 readings/personal muddiest point
W3 schools HTML Tutorial: ah! The mystery is not so confusing anymore. Embarrassing point: I have a Mac but could not find SimpleText on it so I could not go from rich to simple text and do the actual tutorial. Finally, the world opens up and I don't have the right program?
Anyway, I especially like how to view a webpage's html source.
WebMonkey cheatsheet: no longer able to open through website in syllabus, but one enterprising soul in our class found it and posted the url in our discussion boards. I like this page and bookmarked it for further experiments in html, like when I make my myspace page all fancy.
CSS Tutorial: but this is were the really fancy stuff comes into play. Good to know and this has also been bookmarked.
Article: Beyond html: An article taking us through the process of a university library trying to make sense out of its web pages. From total independence and incoherence they attempt to get a library game plan going. I takes 3 years for the web development librarian to get the library in shape enough to begin paying attention to its departmental web pages. They were flexible with many variables in this living process: from what service to use ( they went with the free one and not the expensive shiny one) to how they allowed librarians to make their pages: some used html, some spent a lot of time, some were assisted in cutting and pasting. Some mistakes were made and changes followed as the authors respond to the reality of library web pages. All in all, a great process piece.
Musddiest Point: Why do not I have SimpleText? Is there another Mac equivalent to notepad?
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
jing project
The video can be found here:
http://www.screencast.com/users/maggiehyoung/folders/Jing/media/8d593215-b53e-4bfb-b790-15bfe2db23f3Here are my images. The full set can be found on the right hand side of the screen. It's called 'jing.':
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maggiehelenyoung/
Friday, October 3, 2008
week 7 readings and muddiest point
"Inside the Google Machine" Sergey Brin and Larry Page, 2/04, Monterey CA
I enjoyed this fun presentation immensely. Their picture of the globe and the google searches was very interesting: with the heavy European daytime traffic and the full breadth of traffic in the US compared with Africa being totally dark.
Google seems like a very human centered place to work, which they think is the secret to their web success.
I was not fully aware before of how much money was to be made in advertising: that is how google makes their money, and how individual web pages thrive as well.
I love the 20% idea, having bright people work on what they are interested in. And, obviously, some cool stuff has come out of that and has benefitted google.
I also liked seeing the globe with the data travelling. I never before pictured data, in some sense, physically moving from point to point.
Dismantling Integrated Library Systems, Andrew Pace
So, I glean here that ILS systems are not working well for libraries across the board, and libraries are continuing to pay for these services even if they are unhappy with them, which then leads to lack of ILS innovation? No longer is the answer to simply find a new service, now the services must be tweaked and made more effective. This is a slow process, and some librarians have realized success only when they went in and fixed it themselves. The author thinks that the present system needs to be dismantled and rebuilt to work interchangeably in libraries, rather than have small ineffective systems competing with each other. Of course, I could be completely off in my understanding of this article.
How Internet Infrastructure Works, Jeff Tyson
I agree that the great thing about the Internet is that nobody owns it.
Okay, so it is a network of networks, which we were able to view in the google video. And routers make sure information gets to where it needs to go, and does not go where it is not needed.
I appreciate the explanation particulary of the DNS system. It indeed is a great design.
Muddiest Point: What where ILS systems before the early 1990s?
Monday, September 29, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Week 6 readings and muddiest point
Management of RFID in Libraries: Karen Coyle
Very interesting article. I did not know how they worked, though I've often worked with them in libraries. Very daring of her to tell us all how to block them as well. So, Radio Frequency Identifier which can be switched on and off and carry information about which book it represents. There are also possibilities for RFIDs to make books automatically checked in a sorted into the correct bin upon return to the library. Self checkouts could make circulation staff obsolete: which Karen Coyle argues may not be a bad thing, but may spare people tedious boring hours checking out book s and the pain of repeated use injuries.
I had not heard of retail RFIDs, that will be interesting. I wonder then if they will still make RFIDs for libraries: more durable and able to be rewritten.
Commmon Types of Computer Networks: Youtube
I'm glad I watched this before reading wikipedia. I t was a nice and brief intro.
Computer Networks: wikipedia
We have, at our house, a wireless LAN. Before we got our own access, we could go out in the backyard with laptops and use our neighbor's LAN. This could be built, theoretically into a MAN, WAN, or GAN.
Do I access U Pitt's library through a CAN?
On the basic hardware: I really need to be able to sit in a classroom and work with this stuff beofre I can grasp what it is. Reading about it with no pictures or sense of placement is very confusing.
LAN: wikipedia
Again, what we use. I remember reading about ARCNET from our first week. Ethernet is the most common type, I do not think I've ever actually had ethernet.
Muddiest Point: again, hardware. This is stuff I want to learn about physically, not theoretically. It is the one regret I have about being an online student.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
comments for week 5
http://worldsedgelog.blogspot.com/2008/09/data-compression-and-its-uses.html
http://pittmlis.blogspot.com/2008/09/reading-assignment-5.html
Friday, September 19, 2008
week 5 readings and muddiest point
Data Compression (wikipedia): great introduction to lossless and lossy, and the next readings really filled it in. I think the most interesting part of this article, for me, was the mention of Claude Shannon's work on information and rate distortion theory. I then clicked on his link and learned about a very interesting person.
I understand now about lossless and lossy data compression. I could spit back to you what we all read on wikipedia, but I really can boast of no in-depth comprehension or depth of understanding of these matters. I have never compressed data (manually). I see now that it is both simpler and more complicated than I would have guessed. What I really do not understand is how one programs the encoders and readers to understand the different types of compression. The notes on the next article may sound similar.
DVD-HQ-INFO: 3 long and interesting articles. I understood much more of the lossless data (RLE) than the lossy, and then even less about the video compression. I gather that losslesss is most useful for information with large amounts of repeated data. I see that lossy is not about a loss of useful information, but about its mathematical or digital underpinnings.
Video: I see that it is useful to put the images that need decoding first in the sequence, rather than putting the images in sequential order. Also in video, that the best matched boxes may not necessarily be in the direction the object is moving.
Youtube: An optimistic article, very positive. I'm sure the library could upload videos to youtube. Unless linked to their home page, it would be hard to find them I think. Also, videos seldom answer the specific questions I have at the time. I take that back, there are some how to change oil in your car videos on there which are indispensable. In short, there is no shortage of tools or strategies one could employ to aid in transmitting one's message. Youtube is definitely an accessible one.
Mussiest point: Encoders and Readers. Who does this stuff? How does one program the programs? Can I learn?
Sunday, September 14, 2008
week 4 comments
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5720842264846496247&postID=8915326318333680817
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7533952523781723717&postID=8784500798835554061&page=1
Friday, September 12, 2008
Week 4 readings and muddiest point
Database: wikipedia
I've used databases extensively in my work. I was surprised to read then that the term was first employed in 1963.
This database language would have been helpful when dealing with a database designer about 2 years ago, who developed a database for my company which did not meet our needs at all.
I found myself clicking the various links on the wikipedia page often (of course, I'm learning) and found it a challenge to wrap all the information up into an understandable idea of the general computer database model. In essence, I glean that there are different kinds for different uses, all with their strengths and weaknesses. More study here needs to be done on my end.
Setting the Stage: Anne J Gilleland
very interesting article. I found figure 1 about the life span of metadata helpful. I left the article wondering, "but what does metadata look like?" Luckily, I figured this out with the next reading. I would like to learn more about the non-digital metadata, perhaps this will aid in understanding. But I understand the life cycle and that metadata is a statement made about the information object to make it more searchable.
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1) Eric J. Miller. An Overview of the Dublin Core Data Model http://dublincore.org/1999/06/06-overview/
******This article is not available on the web, for me anyway. Everything else is loading fine. I tried this article and also tried looking at http://dublincore.org//documents/usage guide. I think their server is down.
I was able to find information on Dublin Core here: dc2006.ucol.mx/papers/martesmartykurth.ppt.
This is a power point presentation from Cornell which also contains a very clear metadata definition which I found most helpful to explain the previous article.
I'm guessing Dublin Core is what is in use right now in internet search engines? That is was developed in response to large growth of documents on the web and poor existing indexing capabilities. It seems pretty open ended and easy to use for the non professional. Again, this computer language is all new to me, but I found this presentation to be helpful. They even had a slide as an example of what a metadata description could look like, which helped immensely.
MUDDIEST POINT:
I do not think I am successfully absorbing all this new computer language and ideas for digital management. Is there a hands-on tutorial of some sort? I fear tat reading about it will leave me in the dark as to this world of knowledge. On my end, I'll keep reading my notes and re-reading articles to try and make sense of it somehow.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Friday, September 5, 2008
Week Three Muddiest Point
I think for me it is the computing language. Personal homework for Maggie this week: Find out what a kernel is once and for all, and really get to know "buses." I was scared reading the Mac OS X article. I hope I don't have to learn how to do this sitting alone in my house using only my nice new computer which I don't want to mess up!
Week 3: computer Software Readings
These readings are like no readings I've ever read before. At times, they were interesting, confusing, blurred, inspiring, and clear.
Linux: I was excited to read about this. I have a friend who was taking classes in Linux to learn how to program his own computer. I learned then it was free and there were people availbale who wanted to teach it to others.
Reading Garrels' "Introduction to Linux" which I believe in its entirety is a sort of class on Linux, I found it to be true what my friend had told me. I find the open source idea to be very appealing in that information is readily available, along with a support community, to interested and enterprising users. I would be interested in learning Linux, and I think I would be most successful in an actual class and not alone learning online on my own computer (which I really do not want to ruin).
The GNU Tools seem pretty user friendly also. As a whole, Linux does not seem as scary to me as perhaps the next article, "What is Mac OS X" (even though I won a Mac and use it pretty well.
Kernelthread's description is mostly in a language I do not know how to read. I gave it a gallant try, especially when he began writing code on a Mac beginning at startup. Even though I began sweating, I still was amazed that one could do this to a computer. I have never before known that confidence of looking at the language which makes up this pretty interface that comes all ready for me to use.
I learned about Sherlock, voice commands, and the F9 button, all of which I plan to use frequently and to the amazement of friends and family.
I appreciate the comparisons given here between the 3 operating systems: Mac, LINUX, and Windows. I agree that LINUX is wonderful, but can become bogged down with just the sheer amount of choice involved.
The wikipedia article on Mac OS X is indispensible in clearing up the kernelthread article.
Last: Windows article: very easy to read. I felt all warm inside. They really care. This is the perfect system for someone who wants a ready to go computer. I have had generally good experiences with Windows but was eventually turned off due to all the bugs Internet Explorer came down with and how many times our trusty old PC was attacked. Which leads to programming: I had a ready-to-go PC but needed someone around all the time who could reboot and debug it. So, maybe not so user-friendly.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Week 2 Readings
Computer Hardware:
Reading this wikipedia article was, for me, like spreading a computer out on a table top and looking at each piece. I have no idea what each one does or how they interact as a whole. Thank goodness for all the different links on this page.
Moore's Law: A fascinating article and video. I don't know if I could call it a law though, as even the wikipedia article stated, "the more Moore's Law was accepted, the more it became a goal for the industry." It is a goal the indutry has been able to meet thus far.
Even though the microprocessors have become smaller, it does not mean that speed or software capabilities have increased expontentially as well. This seems to me a mirror of the human experience, as we have these large brains but capacity to use them only a little bit, and that we have access to all the knowledge in the world, yet wisdom is still only attained by a few.
Computer History Museum: I love the internet timeline. Funny, I didn't find Al Gore on it at all? I was hoping the chess exhibit could give me some tricks to defeat my husband, but it seems that Deep Blue is my only hope. The Babbage computer build from his designs would defintiely be something to see.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Comments: week 1
ON Denise-librarylove.blogspot.com:I also agree. I hope we as a society do not become wholly dependent on screen interfaces to access information and even to read a book. Though the possibilities provided by technology are seductive, ultimately I fear it will place too great of a cost burden on the individual
On tee-quakhaan.blogspot.com:
Things have changed a great deal since the first computers. I too wonder what the future will look like, how omnipresent yet invisible multi-media products may be
Lied Library @ four years: technology never stands still
Lied Library @ four years: technology never stands still.
Jason Vaughn.
Library Hi Tech 2005 V 23 Issue 1 pp 34-49.
I had a lot of trouble accessing this article. The link on the syllabus landed me on emerald. I registered with emerald, paid the money on my card, and then their server was unavailable each time I tried. I tried again the next day and they allowed me to sign in, but kept asking me to register when I already had.
Thank goodness for our TAs! Wan-Yin Hong responded promptly to me twice and led me to the right place. Thank you!
I am incredulous that I had to pay $35.50 to read this article. I understand the debate of information online and ownership of information. Still, I cannot justify that this was money well-spent.
That being said, I enjoyed reading Mr. Vaughn's article.
A unique and cutting edge technologically based academic library, led by an imaginative and energetic leader, created and pulled off an amazing feat, and it sounds like they have been on top of the many changes that necessarily come with a library which focuses on technology.
Lied Library seems to be an example of the library of the future which we have been reading about thus far. Librarians spent far less time shelving books, and many hours installing, rotating and updating computer software.
It seems there is a pull between wanting to attract as many people to the library as possible, and a need to curtail public use for the sake of the student body members, whose tuition supports the library.
Lied Library reads as an ultimately fragile place with a huge overhead. Not only do they have to replace PCs every 3 years and servers and printers nearly as often, technology has increased the library's need for paid staff.
Vaughn writes that he hopes the funding for the library is present in the future. Without huge amounts of funding, Lied Library would collapse into itself very quickly.
Maybe now I am understanding more the need to charge over $35 for the privilege or reading 15 pages about the set-up and initial stages of evolution of a technological behemoth.
Friday, August 29, 2008
week 1 muddiest point
Well, I had trouble purchasing one of the articles and I'm not sure what the "right" way to post notes is.
I posted them as I would post notebook notes, but I found other people had insightful and well thought out personal essays.
So, it is the first week and I'm getting the hang of this.
I can muddle through the muddiest points of my own limitations.
Next week will be better, and I'll try that expensive article again tomorrow!
Week 1 assignment
Note: I am thus far unable to access J Vaughn's article "Lied Library." I attempted to purchase the article and the connection kept timing out and saying the server was unavailable.
I am afraid I will be charged more money for my attempts to view the article, as I had to click the purchase button a few times.
Honestly, I am not trying to get out of work or be a nuisance on my first assignment!
Personally, I find $23 to be an exorbitant amount of money to gain access to an article. Is there a more economical way to be able to read this?
--This applies directly to the other readings. I find myself not willing to pay 0.25 for a sentence. I would be willing to buy the book, with a chance I could re-sell it. But if I buy the rights to simply view the article online, I have no way to make some of my money back.
I find this unfair to the students, who collectively pay far more money for the article (each of us paying $23) than a class would pay normally for an article to be placed on reserve at library.
Also, I am troubled by the erosion of privacy. I have given emerald my personal information now, and many other websites. If I was able to walk into a library, I would need to give the information only once, and there in the library it would be contained.
It seems like the outflow of information is no longer able to be checked by traditional means of "binding" information. Authors are able to bypass the competitive world of book and article publishing, and publish themselves on the internet, at minimal costs ( and at potentially great monetary gains ).
Theoretically, all this new information is also available to a much larger audience, as more and more people have internet access, and internet access all the time with the help of wireless internet and portable internet devices.
Librarians need to adapt to information outside the notion of books--to appeal to the container agnostics: increasingly tech-savvy and discriminating information consumers.
"Search, Find, Obtain": libraries need to play into the new methods consumers use to access and find information.
1964: Marshall McLuhan: "The medium is the message." This quote makes more sense to me after reading Clifford Lynch's essay "information Literacy"
--It is important to be able to read and understand information, and also important to be able to see the world which made this information, and information delivery possible.
--Mark Federman explains it as: "change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs."
E-info: content delivered at little seeming cost straight to consumer
Disruptive technology: new communication channels offering alternatives to established ways of obtaining content
Payload emails make ILL seem tiny: Libraries do not track their payload emails
Downsized Cost:
--micropayment for micro-content is increasingly common.
--without the old physical form--one is paying for seemingly pure info, or for the privilege of reading someone's info
--there is demand for micro-content and a willingness to pay for the convenience of having it delivered
Blogs: way for libraries to reach out, and to hear from consumers?
--more and more people are reading blogs for their fresh perspective, ease and convenience.
--Libraries could use this as way to begin to rate information and keep people updated on what is new in the informational world.
Projections show that print materials will still rise in production--though not nearly as fast as online materials
This article suggests that libraries move beyond collecting and organizing and to begin assessing quality of information available
"we are drowning in information and starving for knowledge"
There is a need for conceptual tools acting as unseen librarians directing people to the particle information which will best suit their interests (guide to context)
"Information Literacy and Information Technology Literacy: New Components in the Curriculum for a Digital Culture" Clifford Lynch 2-21-98
IT is to understand technology and its underpinnings in every day life.
---understand tools of technology
---- understanding the policy which shapes its development and dissemination
Information Literacy
--beyond reading, writing, critiquing.
--though it is important to understand information, it is also important to understand its meaning within its structures
----this seems to be a more complete education, to understand the information and the information machine which made it possible, and the depth of the tools we employ to access it
Authoring
--it is not just typing anymore
--a good education teaches deeper knowledge of software and formatting. Lynch believes education is still stuck largely in a 1980s word processing model, cheating students out of the knowledge of how information is truly worked and formatted in the world
Technology and Library Users: LITA experts
---"FutureSpeak: A Preface to Top Technology Trends in Libraries" Tome Wilson
Wilson rejects the implication that predictions mean one can see or control the future.
"The" + "Future" connotes that there is one possible future that will play out
Peter Bishop warns against assumptions in forecasting
--says the best long term forecasts are not necessarily accurate or precise, but are those which are useful.
--these are the most probable, most plausible
--greatest threats to good forecasting is often the forecaster's assumptions
--Technology is but one factor influencing the future
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