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The Role of Technology
Dr. Chip Bruce
Dept. of Library and Information Sciences
University of Illinois
Who
• One-way vs two-way
- online calendars
- website creation
- photo sharing
• Mediated interaction
- user profiles customization
- filters
- web bots
• Increasing use by all people in every sector
What
• Sharing content
- web cams
- collaborative knowledge construction
- data mining
- undiscovered public knowledge
• dynamic web pages
– web logs
• conferencing
• decision support
• The deep web
– metadata standards
– VR: marketing as experience
When
• 24/7
• Job shift shifting
• World time
Where
• Ubiquitous
- taxis
- pocket HD
• Embedded
- GM
sells more processors than IBM
• Wearable
• Distributed
- SETI
- Gnutella
• Internal
– mouse & cursor
Why
• Community
- Yahoo! Groups
- Web rings
- Buddy lists
• Individualization
• Articulating experience
Appropriate Technology
• IM and Email
• Ray Tomlinson: @
• Camden telephones
Forecasting
• Overestimate short-term effects
• Underestimate long-term effects
• Automobile
– needs roads, service stations,…
– Leads to suburbs, industry changes,
social mores,…
– Charles Kettering: starter (1912)
Co-evolution of…
• Knowledge
• Organization
• Technology