From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 07:49:43 -0700

This article of mine:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/11/what_will_libraries_be_like_in_2100.html

 . . . came about as a result of a forum at the New America foundation
in DC the full video of which (about two hours) is at:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/77548793

Our predictions are still pretty linear and assume that meteorites,
climate change, and other disasters let us grow, but my best
conversations after the event had to do with the reshaping of humanity
itself.  When there are oceans and oceans of data on which we might
want to draw to know our world, it's not just a question of what tools
we will use but what kind of people we will become.  So inevitably our
predictions are probably pointed a little less far into the future
that we thought, but it was an engaging discussion with a large and
lively audience.

Jim O'Donnell
ASU