"It is clearer to see today how when Mark Weiser coined the term, ubiquitous computing, we were not sure what the scaling of being surrounded by computers everywhere would involve. Not only are we using desktops, travelling with computers, carrying them all the time, wearing them, they are totally embedded in our world. Thus, we are challenged to see how we will design, use, and understand the elements of a ubiquitous computing world...
[Speaking then of grey literature] Personally, I have to conclude that grey literature will have a new home in the spectrum of digital libraries [and in the ] new repository systems that are being hosted by a variety of institutions where there is a welcoming "stewardship" ... The homecoming and lifespan of this new content in a connected context may be shorter but the diversity may be richer and "new analysis environments" will evolve and new communities of collaborators may result. As Clifford Lynch and Charles Henry recently ponder the future of digital libraries in interviews conducted for Ubiquity, Henry suggests, that "something very different will emerge -- something that is shared, collaborative, that doesn't belong to you or to me or to any particular institution, but belongs to everyone and no one perhaps at the same time. This is where a lot of academic information will reside 50 years from now. It will be very interesting to see how [institutions will navigate] through these contradictory impulses."
~ Julia Gelfland, U of California, "The Ubiquity of Grey Literature in a Connected Context."
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