Web 2.0

Today I read about Library 2.0 and how the futurists think this will affect libraries. Web 2.0 is a way of incorporating many different formats into one place. Library 2.0 would be a library that was more online and geared toward users of the internet. The futurists are scared. Libraries that use such antiquated devices such as books will go the way of the eight track player and be obsolete. We need to change with the changing times before we're left by the side of the information super highway. But not all futurists are running around like Chicken Little, some think that what the library does right now, they do right. Libraries provide more than just materials. They provide a people element that computers can't duplicate. My thoughts are that the future will be somewhere in the middle. There will be people that want online information and there will be some that just want a person to speak to. And libraries will be ok.