Implications for Librarians Hip of Computer Technology

sentially industrial one even our farms are now largely factories. We have seen the increasing integration of our society into a single whole an integration wrought by modern transportation and communication, an integration requiring a corresponding social organization. We have seen an ever broadening size of scope of that social structure until now it is close to encompassing the entire world. We have seen the ever increasing impact of technology until we have learned not only to accept change but even to expect it. We have seen an ever increasing specialization an essential ingredient of complexity until the day when one man could legitimately be viewed as a universal genius is long past. We have seen an ever increasing magnitude, in both breadth and depth, of recorded knowledge until the day when one man's personal library could be the basis for a