The new un-wired frontier: Wireless computing in library and information centers. Sponsored by SIG LAN
✍ Scribed by Vicki L. Gregory; Tom Terrell; Fred Heath; Doug Rosenoff
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 127 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0044-7870
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The accelerating pace of technological change in the realm of electronic information storage and delivery continues to shunt aside, often unexpectedly, whatever the current “highest” technology may have been in favor of the next advance, sometimes virtually eliminating a technology, as in the case of videodiscs and a number of floppy‐disc storage systems, or spurring a re‐invigoration, such as the rise of the cable modem in response to the potential of telcoprovided ADSL services. In just the very recent past, we spoke confidently of those on the “bleeding edge” of technology as being “wired,” for whom a magazine of the same name became a publishing phenomena in the early 1990's. Now the frontrunner position in information delivery appears to be held by the “wireless” revolutionaries. Today more and more information services are becoming available in various versions of the wireless context. Differing scenarios of wireless computing and information delivery in library and information centers and by commercial information vendors, will be discussed along with an assessment of the future of wireless computing, what its ramifications may be for both traditional and today's fully‐wired libraries, and whether and for how long wireless will likley remain the forerunner in the game of technological leapfrog.