The DaVinci Institute
I don't think that literacy will ever go away and we'll become a verbal society again. Just think about advertisement, how could that only be verbal? Now, I can see the technology becoming largely verbal, but that I don't forsee happening for quite some time, certainly not 2050. Another part of the article I don't like is the suggestion of having space at the library for band practice and such, I don't believe that even fits in with a libraries mission. Same with an art studio and theater-drama practice rooms, why would these be in the library and not the local community center or school?
I do think it's a great idea though that libraries should be at the forefront of teaching the public new technologies, in so far as the library is able to obtain them by monetary support.
What Cloud Computation Really Means
Well, it would have been nice if this article would have answered it's own title, but the information provided was a bit cloudy (ha! ha!). From what I understand of cloud computation from this article is that it has many different meanings and interpretations. No one definition is provided so I don't understand at all what it is. Or perhaps it was just over my head...either way, I got nothing from it and don't understand what cloud computation is now any more then I did before I read it.
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I think what the DaVinci article was trying to get at is the idea that in the future the library will become the local community center. In fact, the library I used growing up already fulfills that role: we had community theater there, the Autobon society met there, etc.
Also, the cloud computing article was really confusing, but the youtube video really cleared up a lot my confusion.
I think that this idea of local library as community center could work really well - in certain communities. Perhaps it would be more feasible/beneficial in smaller communities that wouldn't necessarily have separate facilities for all the activities mentioned.
I think having band practice may be a bit much, but certainly using a library as more of a community center does speak to most library missions- giving their patrons accessibility to information, in whatever form. I also think that the more people are in a library, the more comfortable they will be to use it in the future, for whatever reason.
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