Technical Analysis & Inspiration Points for Library Futures

Pretoria, South Africa Joe Murphy

@libraryfuture

Together, let’s ask questions that get us to a place where innovation is continuous and library made/innovated is the norm,not the notable exception.

Questions Together

• Growth points • New /next partners

• A modern tech Partner Vendor • Next needs from Lib tech Vendors

Leaked NYT Innovation Report 2014

http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/the-leaked-new-york-times-innovation-report-is-one-of-the-key-documents-of-this-media-age/

The library of tomorrow is:

• Pre-smart • Post-mobile• Up-cycled • integrated into social • maker friendly • innovation ready

This is our story

The library in a maker world is a co-creation partner

@libraryfuture

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/final-note/which-government-acknowledges-google

http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2206/

The Tech Landscape Facing Libraries Next – My List

• Contextual content and wear-ables • Data management and the Internet of

Everything • Smart cars / buildings / cities / TVs • Mobile everywhere / everywhere mobile –

beyond and expanded gadgets • A world for and a world by devices and the new

culture • Makers and higher order satisfaction

A few rules

• “We” not “I”• More “What ifs”• Less barriers • Add your critique

through ideas

Internet Trends of 2014 - Report

• By Mary Meeker kpcb.com/InternetTrends • Presented May 28, 2014 at the Code conference • http://s3.amazonaws.com/kpcbweb/files/85/

Internet_Trends_2014_vFINAL_-_05_28_14-_PDF.pdf?1401286773

Technology Changes Reveal Questions that Guide Futures

Technologies that Reveal Questions

Driverless Cars

“… we have developed technology for cars that can drive themselves”(Sebastian Thrun http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-were-driving-at.html)

Drones

• Impact on content • Impact on service• Impact and opportunities

Drones

Is this a future?

What questions does this force that get us to a future?

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101322049893211

Kids react to Walkmans

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

The future library is not passive – it is participatory

Google Glass

Smart contact lens

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

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

http://youtu.be/t1HmYNqp8NM

Amazon Dash & extra-phone mobile

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

Custom printing on demand

When tech moves into library spaces

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

Values as We Move into the Future

Library values are not immutable Conversations about certain values are eternalTheir exact shape is not

Questions of Premium

Challenge - Premium

• Cannot ignore re Net Neutrality • Might miss re loyalty programs • Does not only mean $

New Operating Systems

• Drones • Buildings• The library • The future • …

Brand recognition

Scribd

When partnerships make a purchase attractive

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?

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.

Mobile Messaging

Bringing communication back to phones

Bitcoin – Digital

currencies & digital

lifeflows

Sally video

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

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

http://youtu.be/dEx6AotyzAM

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

Joe Murphy

Director Library Futures Innovative Interfaces

Twitter @libraryfuture

libraryfuture@gmail.com

www.linkedin.com/in/joemurphylibraryfuture

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