The Jetson's Era

Thing#15

I remember discussions about the Jetson's and if we would ever move into that era; though we have not fully enter the fantasy land we are quickly approaching facets of that era. What is difficult for our society is leaving the old behind and the fear of disposing of large amount of what seems to be unnecessary items or what seems to be unnecessary. As you can see I'm a bit stuck even though I know that we are in a new era. I was reading several articles and a few stood out but one in particular was "Away from Icebergs", we are stuck and afraid of disposing of all of the old and moving into the new era. The concern is that when we dispose of the large collection of the printed materials and something happens with technology, what will we do? We have to continue to move forward.

How we deliver service is always a concern when you have one foot in the old and one in the new era. I can see that keeping a large collection of books (catalogs etc) is not needed any longer but until we provide the services needed to everyone we are stuck with the "just in case" theory.


Reading about more powerful ways to communicate; collective intelligence, resource sharing networks and the blogosphere is excited and scaring because there is so-o-o much to learn and asborb in a society where training is limited and uncomprehensive.

As I try to transform my thinking and delivery of services I will use many of the resources that I have saved in this experience to move forward.