While cleaning out our back room here in Post Falls, I came across photocopies of a series of articles on the future of libraries written by Raymond Kurzweil in the Jan, Feb, and Mar 1992 issues of Library Journal.

I thought it would be interesting to look back 13 years to see what people were saying about the future, as we are supposed to be looking 15 years out in creating our vision.

Kurzweil made predictions about the future of the digital book, circa 2000, that haven't come to pass, but doesn’t discuss the Internet at all.

He does raise some interesting questions about the role of the library in light of the digital revolution.

John McDonald