Focus on the Future
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The document discusses the evolving relationship between children and digital storytelling, highlighting the preference of future generations for eBooks and interactive screens over traditional books. It addresses key issues for libraries, including differences in content delivery methods, the rise of personal electronics, and the impact of the digital divide. The narrative concludes with a hopeful note on embracing technology in library services.
Focus on the Future
- 1. focus on the future children, ebooks, and the path to digital
- 2. let’s start with a story
- 3. once upon a time...
- 4. there was a princess...
- 6. but the princess also loved screens
- 8. she liked interactive stories
- 9. and as she ages, I’m betting she reads a lot more on a screen than on paper
- 10. four issues for libraries
- 12. personal electronics are personal
- 13. digital divide
- 16. Less than 10%
- 19. iOS
- 20. iPad 2
- 21. android
- 22. first generation
- 24. thank you
- 25. Jason Griffey Email: [email protected] Site: jasongriffey.net gVoice: 423-443-4770 Twitter: @griffey Other: Perpetual Beta ALA TechSource Head of Library Information Technology http://pinboard.in/u:griffey/ University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Editor's Notes
- #2: As X said, my daughter (3 in December) was nice enough to let me come out here today, and I thought I’d start my time with a....\n
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- #13: We have a problem. But it’s not the problem that you think it is. It’s the next slide.\n
- #14: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/02/geekdad-opinion-the-future-of-childrens-ebooks/\n
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- #18: 6.5% of the cost over 20 years. And Moore’s law tells us that cost doesn’t equal reduced capability...indeed, it means an increase in capabilities over the cost of the reduction in price. There is no other good that I can think of that gets cheaper AND better at the same time. \n
- #19: 6.5% of the cost over 20 years. And Moore’s law tells us that cost doesn’t equal reduced capability...indeed, it means an increase in capabilities over the cost of the reduction in price. There is no other good that I can think of that gets cheaper AND better at the same time. \n
- #20: 6.5% of the cost over 20 years. And Moore’s law tells us that cost doesn’t equal reduced capability...indeed, it means an increase in capabilities over the cost of the reduction in price. There is no other good that I can think of that gets cheaper AND better at the same time. \n
- #21: 6.5% of the cost over 20 years. And Moore’s law tells us that cost doesn’t equal reduced capability...indeed, it means an increase in capabilities over the cost of the reduction in price. There is no other good that I can think of that gets cheaper AND better at the same time. \n
- #22: In October 2009 John Walkenbach noticed that the price of the Kindle was falling at a consistent rate, lowering almost on a schedule. By June 2010, the rate was so unwavering that he could easily forecast the date at which the Kindle would be free: November 2011.\nSince then I've mentioned this forecast to all kinds of folks. In August, 2010 I had the chance to point it out to Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. He merely smiled and said, "Oh, you noticed that!" And then smiled again.\nWhen I brought it to the attention of publishing veterans they would often laugh nervously. How outrageous! they would say. It must cost something to make? The trick was figuring out how Amazon could bundle the free Kindle and still make money. My thought was the cell phone model: a free Kindle if you buy X number of e-books.\n\n\n
- #23: kids just understand how to use the ipad and the iphone. iOS is an amazing feat of UI enginnering.\n
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- #27: in the first generation of print, we got...well, we got a lot, but it took almost 50 years (gutenberg in 1440 to la morte d’artur in 1485) or 170 years before we got a novel after the invention of the printing press (Gutenberg around 1440, and Don Quixote in 1605.\n
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