It is important, then, to make the threshold low. Computer software granting access to the library catalog, the CD-ROM data, and resources on the net must be both powerful and easy to use. To date, the technology for moving and storing information has grown far faster than the technology to connect human intellects to it. Cameras are now available that can track which part of the scene you are attending to in the viewfinder and adjust the focus accordingly. Using information resources must become similarly easy.
Some people take to technology like ducks to water, others take to it like kittens to water.
To support information access for the frightened, the reluctant, and the disinterested, the process must be so easy that every faint glimmer of curiosity and willingness is reinforced with positive results. This is a tall but crucial order. The alternative is to maintain information along with money and power as something possessed by an elite and withheld from the rest. What I have described thus far is, to me, very exciting. When I discuss the future with librarians, however, they introduce a note of urgent caution.