My Rant on "To a Temporary Place in Time"

I was annoyed by this article when it discussed web 3.0 and 4.0. To me it sounds ridiculous, like 1980’s references to flying cars and librarians wearing silver space suits. The point of Web 2.0, to me at least, is that library customers need the library to offer tools and resources in the formats they are familiar with. This shouldn’t be that hard, it is all about updating procedures to fit what is currently taking place in the world.
Where my complaint comes in is when we start to discuss Web 4.0. There is no way that we can even begin to guess what we will be doing technologically in the future or what our customer’s needs will be. We can guess. But that is all there is. And, if you had asked me 10 years ago I would not have been able to even begin to guess that I would be text messaging my friends on a daily basis, or checking Facebook 20 times a day, or ordering pizza online instead of calling in. I feel the literature needs to keep a focus on the here and now and leave the future to the future. We will know what the next big thing is when it gets here. Lets not jump to far ahead and risk the threat of entrenching ourselves in a trend or technology that may not take hold or be the next big thing.