It might include setting up and configuring mailing lists or other, more sophisticated tools for shared thinking. Distributed alliances of librarians might support specific distributed communities, while comparing notes with one another and sharing tools. This view has many consequences. It follows, for example, that a digital library isn't one big system but a federation of potentially quite different systems, each embracing a range of functionalities and fitting into people's lives in potentially quite different ways. It also follows that each community will have, to some extent, its own infrastructure with its own evolution.
Standards are crucial.
No more factories, no more millenarian fantasies, no more isolated information warehouses. Instead, perhaps, we might be able to build, and help other people to build, the interconnected pluralistic society that we so badly need.