The future is unknown - but I have seen historically the growing pains within the profession from articles I have read. In one, at the turn of the 20th century - -all was lost because the telephone meant people would no longer come into the library - everyone would call and just pop in to pick up books.
Then the computers were the thing that was going to eradicate libraries because we could find everything we wanted to know by using the electronic catalog. Also did not happen.
The landscape is always changing -- but it is exciting as well.
