I remember, in one of my professional iterations, the book Libraries In
The Year q2000 by a professor named Licklider. This was 1970 and
library studies departments at universities had begun to add
"Information Science" to their names. Come the mid 90's and UC
Berkeley's South Hall was no longer the home of the School of
Librarianship. It was the School of Networking and Machine Languages or
something of that ilk. The internet had all but gutted the basic
intermediary function of libraries. Licklider got the networking and
information retrieval functions and individualized education functions
right but he kept intact the basic structure and function of the library
(much as NLS is for us) with a lot of modern bells and whistles. He did
not predict the sweeping changes the internet has brought, followed by
wireless communication and now artificial intelligence/machine
learning. I don't think JAWS 100 or anything like it will exist. I
think that physical limitations will largely be overcome by the time
another 85 years or so passes. Mechanical sense organs or clones of
healthy living ones) will level the getting on with life playing field.
Look how much progress has been made since Helen Keller's day. If you
think that like the universe knowledge is expanding at an ever faster
rate then my simple ideas will surely be left in the dust. Yet I hazard
that we'll still be basically the humans we are, if we last another 85
years without a war to end all humans.
On 5/11/2015 9:26 PM, Holger Fiallo wrote:
Maybe it will not be call jaws 100? To get with the times it need to
have a name that shows that we do more than use it for workowork.
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