1. Technology & Knowledge Forum A Look at Dead & Emerging Technologies Darlene Fichter darlene.fichter@usask.ca March 12, 2003 Computers in Libraries 2003

2. Outline Technologies that: will transfer knowledge will not allow us to transfer knowledge

3. Standard line up we could talk about Becoming Mainstream Blogs RSS LiveRef XML ++ to the semantic web

4. On the way out Banner ads Popup ads Instead Large Rich Media ads

5. Dark side of the net Stalking Scams Junk Spam Misinformation

6. Knowledge Information Data Bits & Bytes Only knowledge IF Trust it Find it Ingest it

7. Current Trend Dining on junk food Slogging though electronic garbage Flooded by junk mail More bits, less bytes

8. Yesterday Bookmarks worked! Email as the killer application rules no more! Instant messaging Standard email clients DONT work Spam Scale Square peg in round hole Can we save EMAIL? Yesterday, life was such an easy game to play …

9. Finding it – discarding stuff Stop the on slot of ROT – redundant, obsolete and trivia No garbage collectors in cyberspace Dont have any friendly gnomes working on my desktop either

10. Addressing the challenges of Infloglut 1. More filters 1. Spam Assassin slows the on slot 2. Bottom up architecture approaches 1. Post processing

11. Addressing …finding 2. More techniques for mining terabytes of text, video, audio information Visualization will emerge as stronger and stronger ways to explore and navigate complex information spaces Antarcti.ca Visual Net Antarcti.ca

12. Integrity and trust Security and authority Digital signatures – you are who you say you are PKZIP 6.0 uncompresses and encrypts BigFix Enterprise Suite Find and plug the security holes in the dike

13. Stuff Ive Seen Email, desktop, web My personal wayback machine Wayback Machine www.archive.org Microsoft Research

14. Stuff I Need to Forget! Self cleaning desktop Garbage dump (mental & electronic) for ROT – redundant, obsolete and trivial

15. Stuff I Need to Remember Memory Landmarks Associate information with key events like holidays, birthdays etc. for retrieval Microsoft Research

16. Until They Get Perfect in the Lab Web based citation management RefWorks www.refworks.com Citation Manager (COPPUL) http://stalefish.lib.sfu.ca/CitationManager

17. Gadgets QuickLink Pen Translator Pen Youre just too good to be true, I cant take my eyes off of you, Youd be like heaven to touch

18. Collect content QuickLink Pen enables you to scan up to 1000 pages transfer it to a computer, PDA or cell phone

19. Translate language Very small scanner/translators

20. Knowledge So far, for dead tech night you might think these topics were a bit boring Integrity, reliability, findability Sometimes, girls just want to have fun!

21. TerraPlayer Wireless digital juke box Up to 50,000 songs www.terraplayer.com Demo Show Scottsdale, Arizona

22. Mok Reality Editor Image editing software transform 2D to 3D www.mok3.com Demo Show Scottsdale, Arizona

23. References From Demo: 10 technologies to watch www.siliconvalley.com Microsoft science fair offers glimpse of technologys future www.usatoday.com/

24. Thanks Darlene.Fichter@usask.ca