Viable Future of the Libraries Ahead: A Shift towards Tech Singularity

The present paper intends to envisage that libraries might be operated as superhuman machine intelligence after symbiotic era (about 30 years i.e. 2020-2050) and resulting a push towards libraries of technological singularity.As technological invention quickly converts the mode of access to information resources are progressively available online and in digital formats.The need for electronic information services to the users' community are also accelerating over time at an exponential rate.In the digital era, libraries are hub of information accessible to people of the every corner of the world.Rapid progress of technology has an unbelievable impact on libraries and information centres.Format and mode of access have been changed with the generation of new information using newly emerging technology.In the long journey of evolution, libraries have already been passed over several eras starting from the agrarian society (7 thousand years ago) to information age.To look forward the viable future of the libraries ahead, this paper attempts to find the conjectural turning point in ensuing era when there will be an uncontrollable technological advancement in the prevailing dynamic hub of information landscape.The impact of web based teaching and learning platform has a great effect on every aspect of library and information centres as well as catering new services, scopes and challenges to the library professionals for participation in the repositories of symbiotic age including virtual reality, augmented reality, web based digital services etc.With an overview of the technological singularity in the future world, this paper presents the prospective benefits of emerging tech innovations and their ethical implications on libraries.Singularity implies a fast growing technolical progress when human history as people have known it ends and a curious new era begins.Libraries might become smarter than human after machine.