Thing #15

I have seen the "Machine is Us/ing Us" before in a graduate course. It is fascinating.
I read different perspectives on Library 2.0 and am a little confused because it seems to mean different things to different people. Maybe that is the point. Everyone can have personalized service and immediate access.
I am excited to see what will happen with Library 2.0. Hennepin County Public Library has enabled its patrons to rate books and write little comments. The feature is similar to what Amazon.com offers.
I also think we shouldn't get too carried away with the idea of everything being offered digitally. It involves learning a new skill set and educating people to think differently, i.e. those teachers that think information from an electronic databases is not "print" resources. At the same time, it will enable the library to improve collections that change rapidly and help reduce the amount of material that is purchased and then purged.
This is a little off topic, but Alan Greenspan was on the Daily Show and he said he is no better at predicting the market today than he was 50 years ago and that was before computers. The reason being that you can't predict human behavior.