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The Future is Already Here

Jason Griffey
September 27, 2011

The Future is Already Here

Keynote presentation given to the Western Kentucky Libraries & Museum on the future of the library, services, and technology.

Jason Griffey

September 27, 2011
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  1. “In education, this means the end of the one-way passing

    along of knowledge to students. For they already live in a “field” of knowledge created by new media which, though different in kind, is yet far richer and more complex than any ever taught via traditional curricula.”
  2. “When your old world is collapsing and everything is changing

    at a furious pitch, to start announcing your preferences for old values is not the act of a serious person. It is frivolous, fatuous...
  3. ...If you were to knock on the door of one

    of these critics and say “Sir, there are flames leaping out of your roof, your house is burning,” under these conditions he would then say to you, “That’s a very interesting point of view. Personally, I couldn’t disagree with you more.”...
  4. ...That’s all these critics are saying. Their house is burning

    and they’re saying, “Don’t you have any sense of values, simply telling people about fire when you should be thinking about the serious content, the noble works of the mind?” Value is irrelevant.”
  5. “The movement of information at approximately the speed of light

    has become by far the largest industry of the world. The consumption of this information has become correspondingly the largest consumer function in the world...
  6. ...The globe has become on one hand a community of

    learning, and at the same time...the globe has become a tiny village. Patterns of human association based on slower media have become overnight not only irrelevant and obsolete, but a threat to continued existence and to sanity.”
  7. ?

  8. Douglas Adams said... 1. Anything that is in the world

    when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
  9. Douglas Adams said... 1. Anything that is in the world

    when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
  10. Douglas Adams said... 1. Anything that is in the world

    when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
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