Libraries will vanish like the dinosarous?

Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859)

" The struggle for existence: Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult -- at least I have found it so -- than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind. Yet unless it be thoroughly engrained in the mind I am convinced that the whole economy of nature, with every fact on distribution, rarity, abundance, extinction, and variation, will be dimly seen or quite misunderstood. We behold the fact of nature bright with gladness, we often see superabundance of food; we do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life. . . . I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny. . . . As more individuals are produced than can possibly survive, there must in every case be a struggle for existence, either one individual with another of the same species, or with the individuals of distinct species, or with the physical conditions of life. It is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms (Chapter 3, "Struggle for Existence"). "

Information Storage Media :

Name	Symbol	Meaning	In bytes
kilobyte	KB	1024 byte	1024
megabyte	MB	1024 kibyte	1048576
gigabyte	GB	1024 megabyte	1073741824
terabyte	TB	1024 gigabyte	1099511627776
petabyte	PB	1024 terabyte	1125899906842624
exabyte	EB	1024 petabyte	1152921504606846976
Zettabyte	ZB	1024 exabyte	1180591620717411303424
yottabyte	YB	1024 zettabyte	1208925819614629174706176

1.2 petabytes of storage in 3.5-inch discs

He says he's the first person to solve non-contact optical spintronics which will in turn utlimately result in the creation of 3.5-inch discs with a million times the capacity of any hard drive - 1.2 petabytes of storage.

To put that into perspective, mega is 1,024 times kilo, giga is 1,024 times mega, tera is 1,024 times giga and peta is 1,024 times tera.

He says "Normally all the electrons could spin randomly working against the best electrical signal. The electrons are also capable of spinning in both directions a once. But my unique method for creating uniform in-sync spinning electrons will for the first time allow a whole new field of science and electronics to emerge.

"With the ability to control electron spin we will see much smaller electronic devices on the market."

Holographic Nanotechnology :

1 Colossal Storage 10 Terabyte Rewritable FeDisk will equal 100 - 100 Gigabyte hard drives, 20,000 DVD's WORMS , 4,000 Blu-Ray or China's 405-408 nm Violet Laser EVD WORM Disk's .

Future of libraries ????

"The Internet has expanded access to information, removing both teacher and student dependencies on a limited amount of information sources. Education is no longer bound by the limits of the teacher, textbook, or the books in the school library…Moreover, the Internet offers students in low-income and remote locations far more information than any single traditional library". [Microsoft]

The End of Libraries(Posted on Friday 8 September 2006 Infomancy)

" The end of school libraries came and went yesterday with little fanfare and hardly any notice. On September 7, 2006, the School District of Philadelphia and Microsoft opened the “School of the Future” with every possible space you could imagine…except a library. One of the stated goals from this pilot is to develop a ” replicable model that improves student achievement through holistic reform of secondary education [Microsoft].” Let me translate that administrative gibberish: We are going to create a school model that can be implemented across the country and we don’t need libraries to do it. Well, it translates to something like that. You can read the whole document if you can stand that much VisionSpeak.

But what’s that about the library? Oh yeah…the School of the Future doesn’t need a library. Libraries are a dead place, wasted space, just use Google (or MSN Search!). There are rather a lot of other “learning spaces” identified on the Learning Space Matrix: School District of Philadelphia/Microsoft School of the Future. The School of the Future recognizes the need for a distinct “Driver’s Education Lab” to “Develop skills that improve job-related prospects and advance employment opportunities” (within the field of Pizza Delivery?) [Microsoft]. But no library. There is something called an “Interactive Learning Center” but is this a library? Will there be a librarian?.