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