Why wouldn't we need it? On 5/11/15, Jim Pursley <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember, in one of my professional iterations, the book Libraries In > The Year q2000 by a professor named Licklider. This was 1970 and > library studies departments at universities had begun to add > "Information Science" to their names. Come the mid 90's and UC > Berkeley's South Hall was no longer the home of the School of > Librarianship. It was the School of Networking and Machine Languages or > something of that ilk. The internet had all but gutted the basic > intermediary function of libraries. Licklider got the networking and > information retrieval functions and individualized education functions > right but he kept intact the basic structure and function of the library > (much as NLS is for us) with a lot of modern bells and whistles. He did > not predict the sweeping changes the internet has brought, followed by > wireless communication and now artificial intelligence/machine > learning. I don't think JAWS 100 or anything like it will exist. I > think that physical limitations will largely be overcome by the time > another 85 years or so passes. Mechanical sense organs or clones of > healthy living ones) will level the getting on with life playing field. > Look how much progress has been made since Helen Keller's day. If you > think that like the universe knowledge is expanding at an ever faster > rate then my simple ideas will surely be left in the dust. Yet I hazard > that we'll still be basically the humans we are, if we last another 85 > years without a war to end all humans. > > On 5/11/2015 9:26 PM, Holger Fiallo wrote: >> Maybe it will not be call jaws 100? To get with the times it need to >> have a name that shows that we do more than use it for workowork. >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews >> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 7:15 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [JAWS-Users] The Future of Jaws >> > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >
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