Joe Murphy's opening talk for the European Innovative Users Group meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland June 16 2014 at Queen Margaret University Joe Murphy is a futurist. Joe spoke as a librarian working as Director of Library Futures with Innovative Interfaces.

1. European Innovative Users Group
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joe Murphy
Director, Library Futures
Innovative
@libraryfuture
Innovative Library Directions

2. See the opportunities, Connect the circuits, Hack the design

3. 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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqSDWoAhvLU

4. http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/just-press-go-designing-
self-driving.html

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsaES--OTzM

6. Technologies that
Reveal Questions
As Innovative explores
Google Glass with
libraries, what questions
arise as we consider its
impact on library systems
and what questions arise
from trying the device?

8. Know the
difference
between a
fad and a
direction

9. What does the library interface mean when
connections are provided by drones?
• Impact on content
• Impact on service
• Impact and opportunities
http://internet.org/

10. Drones
Is this a future?
What questions does this
force that get us to a
future?
https://www.facebook.com/
zuck/posts/1010132204989
3211

11. https://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/id350962117?mt=8

12. What does the library
service platform look
like with virtual
reality?
Sony project Morpheus

13. http://youtu.be/d0mg9DxvfZE?t=1m19s

14. If jetpacks were to
become viable
– what could it mean for
libraries?
Where is my jetpack?
[As a thought experiment]

15. “… movies—which still generate almost 75% of
his company's revenue—"are not a growth
business."”
CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg on why DreamWorks is
moving into unproven industries.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/dreamworks-animation-aims-to-harness-more-than-dragon-
1402682217 June 13 Erich Schwartzel
All content industries face change

17. There are 150
points of meta
data in a tweet
Social is about context
Context is about
connections.
Connections are about
discovery.
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/T
weetMetadata.pdf
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/06/06/in-a-
single-tweet-as-many-pieces-of-metadata-as-
there-are-characters/

18. https://twitter.com/astro_reid/status/478124977083154432

19. https://vine.co/v/MD1eEQEjM9u
how about micro video book
trailers in the library catalog?
Switch a
technology’s
context to inspire
new stories

20. Mobile literacy
New media = new discovery
http://whitehouse.tumblr.com/post/88402714223/so-this-just-
happened-backstage-president-obama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YyZkLyxMds
&t=4m3s

21. 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

22. www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/final-note/which-government-acknowledges-google
http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2206/

23. The future library is participatory
not passive

24. 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

25. Brand recognition
through changes

26. http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=8335758011

27. A possible Amazon phone
3D mobile display
Sensors on phones

28. From Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group -
Project Tango – 3D Indoor Mapping
Not for the mobile but with the mobile
http://youtu.be/Qe10ExwzCqk?t=20s

29. 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.
?

30. Smart contact lens
http://googleblog.blogspot.hk/2014/01/introducing-
our-smart-contact-lens.html
Might these lead
to new library
platforms?

31. Kids react to Walkmans
http://youtu.be/Uk_vV-JRZ6E By Benny and Rafi Fine April 23, 2014

32. Amazon Dash & extra-phone mobile
https://fresh.amazon.com/dash/

33. A hint of innovation
in a field ripe for
disruption
Bitcoin
What do payment
systems look like when
digital currencies &
digital lifeflows meet in
the library system.

35. https://ringly.com/
An endless parade of extensions of the mobile as contact point?

36. 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/

37. New Operating Systems
• Drones
• Buildings
• The library
• The future
• …

38. Everything is customizable,
even hardware
Modular smartphones =
Smartphone + Legos
Part of the Maker revolution – taps into higher order satisfaction
Smartphone as
expression canvas?
http://www.3dsystems.com/blog/2014/04/new-
details-project-ara-and-future-modular-phones

39. Mesh networks, custom connections, and locally controlled
content networks
https://pinocc.io/
After smart buildings – mobile as different and
as platform

40. The library of
tomorrow is:
• Pre-smart
• Post-mobile
• Up-cycled
• integrated into social
• maker friendly
• innovation ready
This is our story

41. Values as We Move into the Future
Library values are not immutable
Conversations about certain values are eternal
Their exact shape is not

44. Joe Murphy
Director Library Futures
Innovative Interfaces
Twitter @libraryfuture
libraryfuture@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/joemu
rphylibraryfuture
http://libraryfuture.com