The Library Of The Future

This is going to be the library of the future. It's still going to be the typical building you see nowadays. But it's going to be a bit different.

The library will still feature the necessary furniture for reading: chairs, tables, sofas, etc. But you won't see any shelves or books for that matter. All you will see are people hunched over tablets the size of a legal-size paper.

All will be reading e-books, plucking material from the cloud.

What will replace the shelves though are rows of servers and digital storage devices, all meticulously kept in a climate-controlled environment.

Gone are the days when books had to be maintained, restored, repaired. Gone are the days when one had to consider freight costs, storage capacity, and other inventory-related expenses. Gone are the days when one had to sift through shelves trying to locate a book only to find out that all the copies had already been borrowed.

This is going to be the library of tomorrow: people reading everything in digital format.

Fascinating, isn't it?