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Elizabeth Lane Lawley
May 08, 2008 03:20 PM | General
I went into the 17th Annual ILL Conference knowing that I would enjoy Liz Lawley's presentation-- I've sen her twice before at Internet Librarian. I like her perspective, since she has an interesting career path in both librarianship and IT and seems to embody the spirit of play as a form of learning. Lawley’s presentation began with an overview of past technologies, included some commentary on the way people use these innovations, and ended with some predictions of where the tech world is moving. The presentation was in her low-key presentation style, using mostly screenshots. The amount of focus I was willing to give Lawley for the morning reminded me that I should be using fewer (or no) words in my slides.
Curious about her predictions for the future? Lawley forsees:
- A Continuous Complete Attention movement
- Increase in Ambient Displays (gentle environmental information instead of Inbox-366 items)
- More Mobile Phone Innovations
- Backlash to the Tangible (Trying to get back to the real world)
- A movement towards what makes us happy
For further information, slides can be found on the mamamusings site.
