{"id":62093,"date":"2014-02-20T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=62093"},"modified":"2014-02-18T18:51:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T23:51:29","slug":"lis-predictions-a-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=62093","title":{"rendered":"LIS Predictions: A Cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Mychal Ludwig, Head Editor,\u00a0<a title=\"INALJ New Mexico\" href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?page_id=5713\" target=\"_blank\">INALJ New Mexico<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LIS Predictions: A Cartoon<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MychalLudwig.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-56852 alignleft\" alt=\"MychalLudwig\" src=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MychalLudwig.jpeg\" width=\"205\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MychalLudwig.jpeg 475w, https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MychalLudwig-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>Written &amp; Illustrated by Mychal R. Ludwig, with conceptual contributions from Carl\u00a0Burnett &amp; Jonathan King.<\/p>\n<p>In the library &amp; information science community there is a strong tendency towards\u00a0attempting to predict the future, whether concerning the ascendency of an\u00a0upcoming piece of technology, or the importance a new practical methodology.\u00a0However, most of the time these contemporary predictions turn out to be mere\u00a0speculation, reflecting more so the prevailing ideas of the time and day they are\u00a0written than any accurate prognostications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mychallcartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62095\" alt=\"mychallcartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mychallcartoon.jpg\" width=\"618\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mychallcartoon.jpg 618w, https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mychallcartoon-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cartoon above shows one example of a misguided and often repeated prediction\u00a0e-readers\/tablets over the past 30 years. What are some other predictions with\u00a0respect to the LIS field that you\u2019ve noticed during your career? What value, if any,\u00a0comes from making these guesses?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mychal Ludwig, Head Editor,\u00a0INALJ New Mexico LIS Predictions: A Cartoon Written &amp; Illustrated by Mychal R. Ludwig, with conceptual contributions from Carl\u00a0Burnett &amp; Jonathan King. In the library &amp; information science community there is a strong tendency towards\u00a0attempting to predict the future, whether concerning the ascendency of an\u00a0upcoming piece of technology, or the importance&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=62093\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":62095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[69,3592,5953,3635,5955,5954,3990,2926],"class_list":["post-62093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-article","tag-blog","tag-cartoon","tag-inalj-new-mexico","tag-libraries-and-technology","tag-lis-predictions","tag-mychal-ludwig","tag-the-question-concerning-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mychallcartoon.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WoMK-g9v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}