I find that it’s often useful to imagine the unintended, seedy, improper, or illicit uses of new tools and systems…Thinking along those lines can help to uncover the more subtle connections between a new technology and incumbent systems, spot hidden security flaws, or even reveal markets for a product that the developer had ignored.
Tag Archives: future
Engineers of Innovation | David Lankes | Vimeo
Innovation is a term with baggage. To some it is a nebulous concept thrown around to little effect. To others, it is a daunting task reserved for a few visionaries. In this presentation Lankes will talk about how innovation is the job of every librarian. Lankes will also talk about how innovation must be matched to a mission of learning and constant community improvement.
These Teenage Girls Are Some Of The Most Promising Scientists Of The Future | Co.Exist
Girls made up more than half of the finalists at Google’s Science Fair, the largest in the world. From turning banana peels into plastic to diagnosing skin cancer, here were a few of our favorite projects.
3 projects are reviewed including producing bioplastic from banana peels, diagnosing melanoma, no human help necessary and a better way to predict the spread of tumors.
Libraries of the Future [Infographic] | LibraryScienceList.com
Infographic: 3D Printing is the Future of Manufacturing | Sculpteo Blog
Discover our new infographic about 3D printing and the future of manufacturing. It’s time to find your way in a 3.0 material world !
via Infographic: 3D Printing is the Future of Manufacturing | Sculpteo Blog.
20 Jobs of the Future | sparks & honey
Start-Ups Take Library Jobs | Reinventing Libraries | Library Journal
Three years ago, I wrote here that “libraries are so valuable that they attract voracious new competition with every technological advance” (see “Libraries, Ebooks, and Competition,” LJ 8/10, p. 22–23). At the time, I was thinking about Google, Apple, Amazon, and Wikipedia as the gluttonous innovators aiming to be hired for the jobs that libraries had been doing. I imagined Facebook and Twitter to be the sort of competitors most likely to be attracted by the flame of library value. But it’s the new guys that surprise you. To review the last three years of change in the library world, I’d like to focus on some of the start-ups that have newly occupied digital niches in the reading ecosystem. It’s these competitors that libraries will need to understand and integrate with to remain relevant.
The full story: Start-Ups Take Library Jobs | Reinventing Libraries | Library Journal.
The article reviews competitors GoodReads, Wattpad, Readmill, SIPX and Zola Books.
With Modern Makeovers, America’s Libraries Are Branching Out | NPR
With Modern Makeovers, America’s Libraries Are Branching Out | NPR.
Quotable: When you say the words “libraries” and “future” together, the first question a lot of people have is: Will there still be books? According to most librarians interviewed for this story, the answer is a firm “yes.” But they also say that housing books will be less of a priority.
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