People Power

In the evolution of how people use and interact with technology, I am amazed to see that people are getting back some of what technology had taken away. We share ideas and pictures of our grandchildren, and organize information in a useful way (to us, maybe not to anyone else). We had left our front porches and our town hall meetings and moved inside, to sit in the air conditioning and watch canned television and play video games alone. Now we are connecting again in different ways. I loved "We are the machine." What a contrast to those old movies that depicted a massive metallic-monster computer with blinking lights taking over the world and telling people what to do. The reality is that we are telling "it" what to do, and the result is as creative, fun, silly, stupid, terrifying and wonderful as humankind can be.
In our library system, we are getting on this roller coaster with blogging and twitter and other tools for communicating with our patrons and reaching them where they are. There will be twists and turns and ups and downs, but this will surely be an exhilarating ride.