Week 6, Thing #15 perspectives on Web 2.0 and the future of libraries

I loved reading the OCLC newsletter in this exercise. It's so optimistic, hopeful and sweet, and loaded with technical jargon at the same time. Like reading a certain type of science fiction. I found the images of Library 4.0 very inviting---a knowledge spa!!! immersed in luxuries such as thought ! and "aromatic cigars"---away from the "technohustle"...where are the students in this utopian scene? I can't make them out in the aromatic cigar smoke...but I can hardly wait, it sounds like a nice place to work. In the meantime I have to log off,as my present work day, with its students and start-up technology begins in just a few short hours!