Well, that’s if predictions made by Futurist Richard Watson actually come true. Libraries, along with post offices, direct marketing, free parking, butchers and sit down breakfasts will cease to exist in just 12 years time. And a few years after that we’ll see the death of blogging, spelling and web 2.0, apparently! We’ll have to wait until the 2040s for household chores and newspapers to completely vanish from our lives though…oh well, at least there’s something to look forward to!
Check out his full extinction timeline below…prophetic, pathetic or simply creative marketing to help sell his new book…I’ll let you decide!
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[...] “Libraries will be extinct by 2020.” That’s what North Texas Regional Library System (NTRLS) Executive Director and self-proclaimed futurist Adam Wright said during his keynote speech at the NTRLS conference in Decatur, Texas this past Saturday. He was paraphrasing what fellow futurist Richard Watson had said regarding the future of libraries. There has to be some strong opinions on this one. So here’s your chance to sound off in the comments! And speaking of extinction of things, Watson’s extinction timeline is on fellow lover of libraries Christine Rooney-Browne blog. [...]