Conference Day 1

By | May 8, 2007
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Mid-Atlantic Library Futures Conference, Day 1 Re-Cap

Here’s a run-down on the sessions I attended at the first day of the conference:

You Are Becoming Me and I Am Becoming You! Setting the Record Straight on Latinos Being the Majority Population in the US

Salvadaore Avila, Las Vegas – Clark County Library District

Salvadore Avila quickly brushed past his provocative title, pointing out that Latinos will not be in the majority in the US for some time, and that the increased incidence of intermarriage between Latinos and Anglos will ultimately render the transition less dramatic than we tend to picture it today. Based on the rest of his talk, I take the title to be an attention-getting device, offered up tongue-in-cheek.

  • http://www.speculist.com Stephen Gordon

    Phil:

    Did you get the feeling that Speculistic thinking is entering the mainstream?

  • Karl Hallowell

    Not really, Stephen. :-P By the time it enters the mainstream, we’ll have moved on to other things. One of the burdens of being decades or even centuries ahead of our time. *sniffle*

    More seriously, I think there’s an analogy to the “uncanny valley” for ideas. And many of our ideas lie on the wrong side.

  • Phil Bowermaster

    Yes, but stuff we’re currently interested on does seem to be moving into the mainstream — as I mentioned, this wasn’t exactly a futurist conference or science fiction con. I guess that just means it’s getting close to time for us to move on to some new stuff!