Seriously, I’m a little confused about how we’ll shift from creating collections to curating collections. Collections of what? The real question is whether there will be a new model of publishing so robust and search engines so refined that we can create well-produced texts (which requires editing, reviewing, design…) and can find the ones that will suit our purposes.

We used to do this through publication and building library collections that matched the curriculum. It all got too difficult and expensive and collections aren’t as important as they once were, now that other sources of information are out there. But – how will curating replace those functions, or in fact are we just assuming those functions will happen, somehow, and that will free up our time and space to do other work, including curating things that wouldn’t have been published in the past?

Maybe I just don’t know what “curating” means. And maybe I’m just too skeptical that by 2025 printed books will be irrelevant.