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Technology & Knowledge Forum A Look at Dead & Emerging Technologies
Darlene Fichter
darlene.fichter@usask.ca
March 12, 2003Computers in Libraries 2003
Outline
Technologies that: will transfer knowledge will not allow us to transfer knowledge
Standard line up we could talk about
Becoming Mainstream Blogs RSS LiveRef XML ++ to the semantic web
On the way out
Banner ads Popup ads
Instead Large Rich Media ads
Dark side of the net
Stalking Scams Junk Spam Misinformation
Knowledge
Information Data Bits & Bytes
Only knowledge IF Trust it Find it Ingest it
Current Trend
Dining on junk food Slogging though electronic garbage Flooded by junk mail
More bits, less bytes
Yesterday
Bookmarks worked! Email as the killer application rules no
more! Instant messaging
Standard email clients
DON’T work Spam Scale Square peg in round hole
Can we save EMAIL?
Yesterday, life was such an easy game to play …
Finding it – discarding stuff
Stop the on slot of ROT – redundant, obsolete and trivia
No garbage collectors in cyberspace Don’t have any friendly “gnomes” working
on my desktop either
Addressing the challenges of Infloglut
1. More filters1. Spam Assassin slows the on slot
2. Bottom up architecture approaches1. Post processing
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
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
Stuff I’ve Seen
Email, desktop, web My personal “wayback” machine
Wayback Machine www.archive.org
Microsoft Research
Stuff I Need to Forget!
Self cleaning desktop Garbage dump (mental & electronic) for
ROT – redundant, obsolete and trivial
Stuff I Need to Remember
Memory “Landmarks” Associate information with key events like
holidays, birthdays etc. for retrieval
Microsoft Research
Until They Get Perfect in the Lab Web based citation management
RefWorks www.refworks.com
Citation Manager (COPPUL) http://stalefish.lib.sfu.ca/CitationManager
Gadgets
QuickLink Pen Translator Pen You’re just too good
to be true,
I can’t take my eyes off of you,
You’d be like heaven to touch
Collect content
QuickLink Pen enables you to scan up to 1000
pages transfer it to a computer, PDA or cell phone
Translate language
•Very small scanner/translators
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!
TerraPlayer
Wireless digital juke box Up to 50,000 songs www.terraplayer.com
Demo Show Scottsdale, Arizona
Mok Reality Editor
Image editing software transform 2D to 3D www.mok3.com
Demo Show Scottsdale, Arizona
References
From Demo: 10 technologies to watch www.siliconvalley.com
Microsoft ‘science fair’ offers glimpse of technology’s future www.usatoday.com/