Peugeot Future Technology
If you have a question in thoughts concerning the way forward for information science then you might be positively concerned with whether the methods and tools akin to Python, Hadoop or SAS will become outdated or whether or not investing in an information science course will likely be useful in your career in the long-run. As human beings, we have now to determine how you can pace ourselves and our expectations when there is no temporal backdrop towards which to measure our progress, no narraative via whicch to make sense our actions, no future toward which we may attempt, and seemingly no time to determine any of this out.
A resounding theme is that interdisciplinarity is a hallmark of our networked, cyber instances, with information, knowledge and practice leaking generally uncontrollably across boundaries, typically splendidly and creatively: ‘It is apparent that new methods for educating artists for the future will be found in a worldwide fabric woven with colourful threads from all fields of human endeavour’ (p. 12).
Regardless that we won’t be alive in 100 years, it is nice to think of the long run for others and assist future humans instead of leaving them in a utter mess …