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Library Technology Reports, January/February 2020 (56:2)
Digital disruption, also known as “the fourth industrial revolution,” is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres. This issue of Library Technology Reports (vol. 56, no. 2) examines today’s leading-edge technologies and their disruptive impacts on our society through examples such as extended reality, Big Data, the Internet of Things (IoT), synthetic biology, 3-D bio-printing, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and platform businesses in the sharing economy. This report explains
- how new digital technologies are merging the physical and the biological with the digital;
- what kind of transformations are taking place as a result in production, management, and governance; and
- how libraries can continue to innovate with new technologies while keeping a critical distance from the rising ideology of techno-utopianism and at the same time contributing to social good.
Chapter 1: Digital Disruption and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Chapter 2: The Digital Meets the Physical and the Biological
Chapter 3: Digital Disruption in Production, Governance, and Management
Chapter 4: Libraries Facing Digital Disruption