As the changes add up over time, those most transformed may well be libraries themselves.
Predictor: Browning, John
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for Wired magazine, John Browning takes a look at the future of libraries in a networked age. He writes:”Until there is a universally agreed and available formatting language – which is still a long way off – librarians plan to work with bit-mapped images of books. The electronic image of a book is still a few gigabytes worth of information, and a gigabyte is a helluva lot of data – several times more than what fits into most of today’s computers or flows conveniently through computer networks. But as the changes add up over time, those most transformed may well be libraries themselves.”
Biography:John Browning served as executive editor of Wired UK, the English-language European edition of Wired, the magazine established to chronicle the digital revolution. Prior to Wired, Browning spent 12 years at The Economist, writing about business, technology and economics. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Libraries/Databases
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Libraries Without Walls for Books Without Pages: Electronic Libraries and the Information Economy
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.01/libraries_pr.html
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