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Purpose
This article aims to consider what libraries might be used for after machines become smarter than humans.
Design/methodology/approach
The article considers how Vernor Vinge's novel Across Realtime and his essay “The coming technological singularity” inform possible library futures.
Findings
Libraries might become havens for humans left out of the high‐tech future, or museums for defunct technologies, or vanish completely.
Originality/value
The article expands discussion of the library's future beyond the foreseeable.
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2011
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