The Role of Technology

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The Role of Technology

• Dr. Chip Bruce
• Dept. of Library and Information Sciences
• University of Illinois

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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

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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

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When

• 24/7
• Job shift shifting
• World time

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Where

• Ubiquitous
• - taxis
• - pocket HD
• Embedded
• - GM sells more processors than IBM
• Wearable
• Distributed
• - SETI
• - Gnutella
• Internal
• mouse cursor

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Why

• Community
• - Yahoo! Groups
• - Web rings
• - Buddy lists
• Individualization
• Articulating experience

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Appropriate Technology

• IM and Email
• Ray Tomlinson _at_
• Camden telephones

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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)

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Co-evolution of

• Knowledge
• Organization
• Technology