Library to Makery? ~ Post-Pulp Civic Assets...

Thanks to Alan Wu for spotting interesting MAKE article by Phillip Torrone on possible evolution of public libraries into hackerspaces (or to appropriate a spinonym, the makery)...

"Let’s explore what could be ahead for public libraries and how we could collectively transform them into “factories” -- not factories that make things, but factories that help make people who want to learn and make things. Will libraries go away? Will they become hackerspaces, TechShops, tool-lending libraries, and FabLabs, or have these new, almost-public spaces displaced a new role for libraries? For many of us, books themselves are tools. In the sense that books are tools of knowledge, the library is a repository for tools, so will we add “real tools” for the 21st century?"