librarians in outer space

Librarians in Outer SpaceMartin Hamilton

About Jisc

» Not-for-profit company serving research and education:

› 18 million users of shared services like Janet, eduroam, JiscMail, shared data centres

› Devising national deals with IT vendors and publishers,e.g. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Elsevier and Springer

› Providing advice and guidance to the sector on digital technologies in research and education

» My role:

› Leading our Future and Emerging Technologies team, exploring emerging technologies like Augmented Realityand brain computer interfaces

› Helping our members devise and implement their digital strategies, and building the evidence base around new technologies

Martin Hamilton - Librarians in Outer Space - CILIP invited talk

Pepper robot at Jisc Digifest 2017

» Not-for-profit company serving research and education:

› 18 million users of shared services like Janet, eduroam, JiscMail, shared data centres

› Devising national deals with IT vendors and publishers,e.g. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Elsevier and Springer

› Providing advice and guidance to the sector on digital technologies in research and education

» My role:

› Leading our Future and Emerging Technologies team, exploring emerging technologies like Augmented Realityand brain computer interfaces

› Helping our members devise and implement their digital strategies, and building the evidence base around new technologies

About Jisc


Pepper robot at Jisc Digifest 2017

Librarians in Outer Space

1. We were promised jet packs…

2. Utopia or dystopia?

3. Librarians in Outer Space?


1. We were promised jet packs…


We were promised jet packs…



Data vandalism

Radical librarians


2. Utopia or dystopia?


Let’s play: Utopia or dystopia?


1. Driverless (or self-driving, or autonomous) cars (lorries, buses…)- blessed relief, or frankly terrifying?

2. Space tourism - fancy a weekend break on the moon?

3. Smart homes - from Internet connected locks to toothbrushes

4. DNA editing (CRISPR/Cas9) - we can rebuild you (or your unborn child)

Actually Brunel University, even if it looks a bit likesome kind of Martian habitat

It’s all cats from here…


It’s all cats from here… (and cat monsters!)


It’s all cats from here… (and dogs!)


Trending image from Deep Dream Generator - https://deepdreamgenerator.com/

https://deepdreamgenerator.com/

AI meets Shakespeare


From http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

VIOLA: Why, Salisbury must find his flesh and thoughtThat which I am not aps, not a man and in fire,To show the reining of the raven and the warsTo grace my hand reproach within, and not a fair are hand,That Caesar and my goodly father's world;When I was heaven of presence and our fleets,We spare with hours, but cut thy council I am great,Murdered and by thy master's ready thereMy power to give thee but so much as hell:Some service in the noble bondman here,Would show him to her wine.KING LEAR: O, if you were a feeble sight, the courtesy of your law,Your sight and several breath, will wear the godsWith his heads, and my hands are wonder'd at the deeds,So drop upon your lordship's head, and your opinionShall be against your honour.

http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

Wrapping up


Mr Shadow – song composed by Sony CSL Research Laboratory’s AI

3. Librarians in Outer Space?


Lifelong learning and portfolio careers

http://www.stanford2025.com/#fast-forward


http://www.stanford2025.com/#fast-forward

Near future careers


Now hiring… DNA editors

Near future careers


Now hiring… DNA editors, drone engineers

Near future careers


Now hiring… DNA editors, drone engineers, asteroid miners

Near future careers


SpaceX first stage booster landing, IRIDIUM-2 mission, June 2017 - via Elon Musk

The road to Mars


The road to Mars

» A few things that have never been done off-world:

› Large scale agriculture

› Mining

› Smelting

› Living without a magnetosphere


The road to Mars



› Mining

› Smelting


» But that’s not all…


The road to Mars



› Mining

› Smelting


» But that’s not all…

› Pregnancy

› Childbirth

› Learning to walk/run/jump

› Going to school


Wrapping up


» Librarians in Outer Space?

› From Data Refuge to Global Seed Vault [*]

› Reference library or Interplanetary Wikipedia?

› Latency of learning

› Help - my AI is a librarian!

› Serials in space - DNA based data storage?

[*] #MoonbaseJisc?

Photo credit: The Crop Trust

That’s all folks!

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