Keynote in Pretoria, South Africa by Joe Murphy Librarian Futurist about tech trends, library futures, and questions to get through the noise to explore the impact. Joe Murphy is a librarian and a futurist with experience in Yale Science Libraries, as Director of Library Futures for a software company, and later as a degreed futurist with an MS in Foresight and MBA.

1. Technical Analysis & Inspiration Points
for Library Futures
Pretoria, South Africa
Joe Murphy
@libraryfuture

2. Together, let’s ask questions that get us to a
place where innovation is continuous and
library made/innovated is the norm,
not the notable exception.

3. Questions Together
• Growth points
• New /next partners
• A modern tech Partner Vendor
• Next needs from Lib tech Vendors

4. 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/

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

6. The library in a maker world
is a co-creation partner
@libraryfuture

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

8. 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

9. A few rules
• “We” not “I”
• More “What ifs”
• Less barriers
• Add your critique
through ideas

10. 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

11. Technology Changes Reveal Questions
that Guide Futures

12. Technologies that
Reveal Questions

13. 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)

14. Drones
• Impact on content
• Impact on service
• Impact and opportunities

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

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

17. The future library is not passive – it is participatory

18. Google
Glass

19. Smart contact lens
http://googleblog.blogspot.hk/2014/01/introducing-
our-smart-contact-lens.html

20. Mobile extended the screen & input point beyond the desk,
new tools continue extending beyond the device
http://youtu.be/t1HmYNqp8NM

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

24. Custom printing on demand

26. When tech moves into library spaces

27. https://itunes.apple.com/app/id720377541

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

29. Questions of Premium

30. Challenge - Premium
• Cannot ignore re Net Neutrality
• Might miss re loyalty programs
• Does not only mean $

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

33. Brand recognition

36. Scribd
When partnerships make a
purchase attractive

37. Impact of Uber is how it is disrupting.
https://www.uber.com/cities/hong-kong
A model for reactions to its disruptions.
Are competitors wrong to focus on the
mobile aspect of Uber for its success?

39. 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.

42. Mobile Messaging
Bringing
communication
back to phones

43. Bitcoin –
Digital
currencies &
digital
lifeflows

46. Sally video
http://youtu.be/liWnmOruncc Sally Pewhairangi @sallyheroes @libraryfuture

47. http://youtu.be/iprrSgGVkoA
“the library is a virtual, a social, and a physical space
where we make sense of an accelerated world”
- Andrew Cowie of the National Library of New
Zealand’s Learning Futures team

48. http://youtu.be/dEx6AotyzAM
Don’t be afraid of new tech.
Try it out and ramp it up

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