1. Hello, my name is @hughrundle and I will
be your #valalib speaker today.

2. Technolust
the fifth column of the information counter-revolution
27 March 2013

4. A library is a system
for sharing ideas.

5. • Preservation
• Openness
• Freedom
• Privacy

9. • the adjacent possible
• liquid networks
• the slow hunch
• serendipity
• error
• exaptation
• platforms

10. The most important question we need to
ask of any given technology is not
“What are the features?”
but rather
“What are the consequences?”

11. I don't want to be part of a profession
that doesn't make things any more.

12. What sort of library lends books that
self-destruct?

13. What sort of library extends access to
information by allowing publishers to
restrict it?

14. What sort of library finds it acceptable
for an algorithm to determine what
information its members are allowed to
access?

15. What sort of library encourages its
community to invade their own privacy?

16. What sort of library are you going to
build?

17. Questions? Comments? Critiques?
tw: @hughrundle
adn: @hughrundle
e: hugh@hughrundle.net
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References, full text and further reading available at hughrundle.net soon.