Let's talk about it: The emerging technology future for special librarians.
Information Outlook › Vol. 6 Nbr. 2, February 2002
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Let's talk about it: The emerging technology future for special librarians.
There is no doubt that technology has changed the world.
Almost every aspect of our jives differs in some way from that of our parents and grandparents because of advances in society's ecology-heat, tight, communication, and food. When my grandfather was born, communication consisted of mail that arrived twice a day, six days a week. The telephone was not around yet but you could send Morse code messages across the continent. When you bought a home in the city, you expected that you would have mail delivery there. When my grandfather was first married, he bought a "starter" home. Electricity was an optional extra, no one in his neighborhood had phones, and home fuel (coal), ice, milk, and bread were delivered. For news and entertainment he went to the movies (or the "the show" as they were called) or to a friend's place to listen to their radio. By the time my father was born in the 1930s, oil was delivered and some neighborhoods were heated by natural gas. Mail, ice, milk, and bread were delivered. People started to get telephone party lines in their neighborhood because a "whole phone" costs a lot and there was not enough...See the full content of this document
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