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First, thanks to all the wonderful posts -- most public, some private. I
will at some later time try to summarize and synthesize them.
Gordon Rowland's comment (below) about Orson Scott Card's Sci Fi discussion
reminded m that I had neglected my own favorite Science fiction about
libraries: Vernor Vinge's Hugo Award winning "Rainbow's End" which not only
has a very interesting view of the future of libraries and intelligent
information technologies. Not only that, but the action takes place at my
University's Library --- UCSD! (In part because the famous library
building, by William Pereira, looks like a spaceship.
The Library: https://commons.ucsd.edu/about/location.html
The book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End>
Also see Stewart Brand's review in Technology Review:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/406030/vinges-singular-vision/
Vernor is a brilliant science fiction author with a prolific imagination.
He is a friend (although I haven't seen him in quite a while) lives in San
Deigo. He taught C
o
mputer Science at the neghboring San Diego State University.
I forgot about his book. Now I will have to reread it as preparation for
my talk.
It and Orson Sctott Card's book.
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:39 AM, Gordon Rowland <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> With apologies if someone has already contributed this type of direction,
> possible inspiration might come from “The Originist” by Orson Scott Card
> (in Foundation’s Friends, Maps in a Mirror, and Flux). If I recall
> correctly, one of the main characters is an indexer in the Foundation
> library, which has an interesting disruptive element to trigger creativity
> of connections—the physical environment of her office in the library
> changes each day.
>
>
--
Don Norman
Prof. and Director, DesignLab, UC San Diego
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