The Post-Mobile Library

mLibraries Conference Hong Kong

Joe Murphy Director Library Futures

Innovative Interfaces@libraryfuture

The library in a post-mobile world is a technology test kitchen

@libraryfuture

Sally video

http://youtu.be/liWnmOruncc Sally Pewhairangi @sallyheroes @libraryfuture

http://bit.ly/mlib14keynote

From Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group -

Project Tango – 3D Indoor Mapping Not for the mobile but with the mobile

http://youtu.be/Qe10ExwzCqk?t=20s

Kids react to Walkmans

http://youtu.be/Uk_vV-JRZ6E By Benny and Rafi Fine April 23, 2014

Let’s start basic

Modular smartphones = Smartphone + Legos

Part of the Maker revolution – taps into higher order satisfaction

Smartphone as expression canvas?

http://www.3dsystems.com/blog/2014/04/new-details-project-ara-and-future-modular-phones

Where is this leading us?

Smart contact lens

http://googleblog.blogspot.hk/2014/01/introducing-our-smart-contact-lens.html

Can see where we are going

We’ve become used to having sensors on or near our bodies. The door has been opened …

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/muse-the-brain-sensing-headband

http://youtu.be/iprrSgGVkoA

“the library is a virtual, a social, and a physical space where we make sense of an accelerated world”

- Andrew Cowie of the National Library of New Zealand’s Learning Futures team

Connectivity as capital

Television premier on Tumblr

http://amctv.tumblr.com/

creator/curator/consumer

The post mobile library is not passive – it is participatory

Mesh networks & custom connections

https://pinocc.io/ After smart buildings – mobile as different and

as platform

Getting closer/clearer

The Internet of ThingsSmart buildings A strong role for libraries

Close but still blurry

Mobile extended the screen & input point beyond the desk, new tools continue extending beyond the device

http://youtu.be/t1HmYNqp8NM

Pop up libraries reflect a similar philosophy to how mobile libraries should be conceived

Amazon Dash & extra-phone mobile

https://fresh.amazon.com/dash/

Custom printing on demand

#amazoncart & social / ecommerce

confluence

Tweets for action

The library as development platform

http://instagram.com/p/oDw5k6LiRz/

the product as the platform for connecting social expression to real objects

Print a favorite Instagram pic on your sneakers

If only we could extend the power of images in conversation to images as action …

Pay for a box of cereal in Sweden by Instagramming the product and adding the tag #nyaspecialk (Swedish for new Special K) - Image as currency

Image as ecommerce

Instagram being used by independent ecommerce sellers in Kuwait

http://instagram.com/sheeps_sell

http://youtu.be/dEx6AotyzAM

Don’t be afraid of new tech. Try it out and ramp it up

Loyalty, gaming, perks, … premium

http://www.snapmyad.com/

Questions of Premium

https://keysduplicated.com/

Mashup of ecommerce delivery, home shopping, maker essence, mobile as action piece, and photo for action

Just new mashups or combining strengths?

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id720377541

Bitcoin – Digital

currencies & digital

lifeflows

Impact of Uber is how it is disrupting.

https://www.uber.com/cities/hong-kong

A model for reactions to its disruptions.

Are competitors wrong to focus on the mobile aspect of Uber for its success?

Finding what we expect

It seems that a digital representation is not necessary

http://www.gosphero.com/sphero-2-0/

Automatic Content Recognition comes (directly) to social

mobile

reveals our content related behaviors

Combines mobile gadget, your experience context, content, social – content as point for interaction.

We cannot isolate ourselves from these “un-library” directions

Emerging into familiarity

http://instagram.com/p/mlHbSYpAiy/

Scribd

When partnerships make a purchase attractive

Brand recognition

Mobile Messaging

Bringing communication back to phones

If mobile is now is “mobile tech” redundant?

Director, Library Futures

Joe MurphyTwitter @libraryfuture

libraryfuture@gmail.com

www.linkedin.com/in/joemurphylibraryfuture

http://libraryfuture.com