Welcome to my new home online

Hello and welcome to Thinking about the Future, a new weblog from me, Paul Miller.

As discussed elsewhere, I leave my current position - and weblog - in September. Although I'll doubtless be contributing heavily to the blogs of my new employer when I get there, now seemed like a good time to take the plunge and give myself a space of my own in which I can continue to express myself.

Posting will probably be light during August and early September, as I spend an awful lot of time tying up various activities in the Common Information Environment.

I see this blog covering many of the same topics that I have always discussed; libraries, archives, museums, education, cultural heritage, lifelong learning, government, and the ways in which all of these are challenged by - and hopefully benefit from - new technologies such as the Web, Web 2.0, the Semantic Web, podcasts, blogs, folksonomies and more.

Throughout, I'll hopefully show that technology is not an end in itself, but a set of tools capable of helping us build something better.

I look forward to the conversation... so be sure to join in.