It looks to me like there is an incipient backlash against library futurists. I have to admit, I dabbled in this myself recently. It’s kind of an easy target and as a friend pointed out: the internet is for backlashes (or something like that), but now I've been thinking that this backlash against library futurists is problem: we don't know the future but we know the present is changing before our eyes.  So, how do we figure out what to do if we don't look to the future. Maybe tarring all futurists with the same brush is throwing out baby with bathwater.

Our current public library approach...

A few months ago, I read the Youth and Digital Skills Symposium: Preparing young Canadians to make social, economic and cultural contributions  Framing Document and, well, really, it's all about how adults see the world now. So little of it seems to be how youth will be able to shape their world the day after tomorrow. 

The authors acknowledge that emerging techologies "challenge educational institutions to keep pace and to develop curriculum..." but of course it also challenges the very existence of those insitutions and they don't seem willing to acknowledge that!

There is lots of talk about