Futures Research: What I'm reading right NOW

"Brain technology will be like automotive technology:
fix it, repair it, replace It, change it, build it, rebuild it.
That’s going to go on with everything above the neck."

-Joseph Coates, Science and Technology: Looking Out 25 Generations

Quote of the Day 09-12-11

"Librarians have always been good hoarders" 
  -Dr. Greg Byerly Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Kent State SLIS

good being the key word

this new Canadian IFLA prez already has my attention

"In April 2012, Parent will host an IFLA meeting at UBC on the topic of “Indigenous Knowledge: Local Priorities, Global Context.” The event will feature international experts speaking on how libraries can better serve indigenous communities, another commitment detailed in the organization’s five-year plan."

from Quill & Quire -UBC librarian Ingrid Parent becomes first Canadian IFLA president

this just looks so perfectly mid 90's flannel to me

 

Paused Paintings by Andy Denzler

  source

interesting video put out by google on how they "improve" their search algorithms

Favorite thing I've read today 08-08

"First, innovation is inherently counter-cultural, and therefore innovative efforts can't avoid being counter-cultural in character as well as content."
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Nigel M. de S. Cameron

President and CEO Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies

have i mentioned that i love post WWII era, AND forest animals?

taken from an exhibition at the University of Chicago's Monsueto Library called "Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary".  link to the slideshow here

in a couple weeks i will turn 28 and make my first ever kenny rogers piece for this show

There's a first time for everything I guess.  More details to follow

favorite thing i've read today

'“Contrary to the Anarchist Manifesto, there are some secrets that should be maintained” because they can kill people—such as Afghans who are working with the U.S. to identify members of the Taliban.'
      -Todd Blanton, director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University in the article Transparency and Ethics in the Wake of WikiLeaks by Greg Landgraf

The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth

So I work in the corporate world, for a little old company called Time Warner Cable, and one of the awesome things that huge corporations such as TWC can do is fund programs and extend a wide reach to millions of people.  One of my personal favorites is a program called Connect A Million Minds, aka CAMM, which sets out to build up the positive promotion of learning and interest amongst younger generations in the fields of science, engineering, math (STEM), and technology.  As I dig deeper into my Masters of Library and Information Science education, the more I appreciate development efforts in this area.  I am definitely more creatively bent, but I also love geeks.

Here's a link to the Time Warner PSA entitled "The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth"