Presentation given to Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville, April 16, 2012

1. Libraries & the Post-PC Era
Jason Griffey
Head of Library Information Technology
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Southern Illinois University LIS Spring Symposium
April 16, 2012

2. #SIUELIS

3. things about which I will speak
• a princess
• some numbers
• a couple of devices
• a few interfaces
• the future

4. “When we were an agrarian
nation, all cars were trucks. But
as people moved more
towards urban centers, people
started to get into cars.”

5. once upon a time...

6. there was a princess...

7. the princess
loved books

8. but the princess also loved computers

9. all sorts
of computers

10. her media
is everywhere

11. and her concept of a computer
is different than yours

12. numbers

13. 18% Visitors to the UTC Library
428,032
82% 1,973,612
Gate Count
Website Visits, excluding in-library

14. 0.24%
Type of Device on
2.89% Campus Network
18.25%
39.31%
Macintosh OSes
Windows OSes
Mobile Devices
39.32%
Game Consoles
Other (Mostly Linux)

15. 3000
2173
2250
839 1500
770
695
69
750
393
5
iPad
Droid
ChromeOS Nook
41
Generic HPWebOS
Kindle 0
Blackberry
Android
iPod
iPhone

18. What does a Post-PC world look like?

20. single-purpose devices

23. multi-purpose devices

26. 56+ million iPads sold

27. In 2008, Apple sold more iPhones than they did in 2007.
In 2009, they sold more than in 2007 & 2008 combined
In 2010, they sold more than 2007, 2008, & 2009 combined
In 2011, they sold more than 2007, 2008, 2009, & 2010 combined.

28. interactions

29. touch

31. gesture

34. Photo by The Pug Father - http://flic.kr/p/biH9j2

36. Predictions are hard...
...especially when they are about
the future.
-- Yogi Bera

37. The Futurist’s Dilemma

38. Arthur C. Clarke

44. Photo by Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/11/lumus-see-through-wearable-display-hands-on/

50. Mike Abrash

51. By “wearable computing” I mean mobile computing where
both computer-generated graphics and the real world are
seamlessly overlaid in your view; there is no separate display
that you hold in your hands (think Terminator vision). The
underlying trend as we’ve gone from desktops through
laptops and notebooks to tablets is one of having computing
available in more places, more of the time.

52. The logical endpoint is computing everywhere, all the time
– that is, wearable computing – and I have no doubt that 20
years from now that will be standard, probably through
glasses or contacts, but for all I know through some kind of
more direct neural connection.

53. And I’m pretty confident that platform shift will happen a
lot sooner than 20 years – almost certainly within 10, but
quite likely as little as 3-5, because the key areas – input,
3-5
processing/power/size, and output – that need to evolve to
enable wearable computing are shaping up nicely, although
there’s a lot still to be figured out.

54. conclusions

58. strategies

59. look outside ourselves

60. mobile first

61. web, not apps
Photo by MrClean1982 - http://flic.kr/p/GxCYJ

63. prepare for the data flood

65. insert inspirational quotes here

66. Douglas Adams said...
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is
normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the
way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen
and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary
and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the
natural order of things.

67. If I'd asked them
what they wanted,
they'd have said a
faster horse.
-- Henry Ford

68. It isn’t the consumer’s job
to know what they want.
- Steve Jobs

69. The best way to
predict the future
is to create it.
-Peter Drucker

70. The Future Needs Us

71. The Future Needs Us

72. Thank You

73. Jason Griffey
Email: griffey@gmail.com
Site: jasongriffey.net
gVoice: 423-443-4770
Twitter: @griffey
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Head of Library Information Technology
http://pinboard.in/u:griffey/ University of Tennessee at Chattanooga