1. Overview TechForum 2004: Looking at Dead & Emerging Technologies Darlene Fichter http://library.usask.ca/~fichter/ Data Library Coordinator, U of S Library

2. Dead and emerging technologies  Fear & technology –Futurists –Some “Dead” –Some “Emerging”

3. William Gibson’s Observation “the future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed”

5. What do the futurists say?  George Gilder  Chairman of Great Barrington, Mass.-based Gilder Publishing, is also a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute  Ray Kurzweil  Inventor of, among other things, music synthesizers and a reading machine for the blind  Jaron Lanier  Computer scientist, artist and virtual reality pioneer (he coined the term virtual reality) Darwin Magazine, May 2002

6. George Gilder  What's the most dangerous part of the car?  The nut behind the wheel

7. Ray Kurzweil  Not willing to “label” anything, but … – Biotechnology and nanotechnology are exponentially more powerful than any technology of the past –Nanotechnology -- the creation of tiny, intelligent self-replicating devices Millipede Chip - A way of storing a terabit of data on a chip no bigger than a postage stamp has been developed by IBM.

8. Jaron Lanier  20th century, one-way mass media, such as radio and TV, because it can incite mass violence –21 st century, smart mobs?  Integration of IT and biotechnology

9. Transplant?  Chip designed to replace the hippocampus - part of the brain used to store memories  Cyborg  Cybrary www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993488

11. The sky is falling!  How do you know that the sky is falling, Chicken Little?" asked Henny Penny  "I saw it with my eyes, I heard it with my ears, and a bit of it fell on my head," said Chicken Little

12. The Internet is dead!  It’s everywhere –Spam –Viruses Any RSS fans out there? Any email users with Eudora, or antiquarian email programs?

13. Nature’s answer  Biodiversity –Think about it

14. What do I think is waning?

15. Laptops are for weight lifters

16. Barcodes

17. Library cards

18. One exception  Michael Sauers www.webpan.com/msauers/libdir/cards/

19. What do I think is waxing?

20. Links rule, social software  Fear of links? 1999 “While professional journalists turn up their noses, weblog pioneers invent a new, personal way to organize the Web's chaos.” www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/1999/05/28/weblogs/

21. Broadband home: armchair revolution  Ultimate jukebox has every –song ever recorded –move ever made –game ever created –? Every book …  Infinite television  Early adopters: 12,500 songs,125 hours of video (300 gigabytes) on tap www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.01/wiredhome_1.html

22. “Broadband library”?  Digital library for the “have nots”  Or full circle? –Institutions of learning  Media literacy  Trusted advisors

23. Bugs = Scarry? Richard Scarry Taught us to love technology, tools and trucks

24. Fear of technology  Did you know that the Stimulus-Response conditioning can be reversed? Human Interface Technology – HIT Lab Technology reducing fear?

25. Cyberhand

26. Thank you