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"Why most people seem intent on taking computing back to the mainframe era with all of the intelligence at the center of the network in mega datacenters and the endpoint devices acting like fancy display terminals is beyond me. However, rather than prognosticating about the future at the architecture astronaut altitude, I'm going to just point out three interesting details that occurred to me over the course of the summer as I caught up with some geek stuff. And they all start with:
Writing a webapp is different now than it was five years ago "
This is a big gap where businesses choose to invest in their services. They spend a lot of money to tell you how great the service is, and then, all too often, the service doesn't live up to the hype. Brands become hypocrites thanks to their own investments.
"Yeah, this is a ton of reading. The point isn't that someone should memorize every word, most of the the articles probably only need to be scanned. What I'm hoping for is a list of resources that will help someone get acclimatized to reference service and hopefully become aware of many of the main issues around such services in academic libraries. As well, there's a bit in here about some general issues in academic libraries."
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In each case we took some activity that we once self-managed, collaboratively within our communities, and made it into a 'specialty' someone else did for us, for money. We went from self-sufficiency to helpless dependence, from collaborative citizens to 'clients'. Now, the large majority (and growing) of our society's jobs, costs, and GDP, all come from this vast, amorphous 'service sector'.
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