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Future? Learning as sensory experience

April 4, 2006 - 6:21pm — Karl

iblee muses: Is this the future of libraries?

Since most people have fond memories of their times growing up in libraries, most libraries have the luxury of time to reinvent themselves.
Here are 10 key trends affecting development of the next-generation library.

The article is excerpted from futurist Thomas Frey's essay The Future of Libraries: Beginning the Great Transformation.

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April 4, 2006 - 7:43pm — GregS*

how about simpler?

2. All technology ends.

Every device and piece of technology we use today will go away and be replaced by something else that's faster, smarter, cheaper, more capable, more durable, works better and looks cooler.

I'm reminded of the joke about how NASA spent millions developing pens that could write upside down in space and the Russians just used pencils.

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