To my Ptacek family, just in case you haven't seen it yet. Not the first mention of Bill Ptacek I have seen in Library Journal. I understand your high regard for him and was so sorry to hear of his passing.
In 2013 LJ ran a series of excerpts from Library 2020, a then-futuristic prediction of where the field was heading, edited by @joejanes. Now that 2020 is here, we're revisiting those essays to see what came true. The first is by the late Bill Ptacek ow.ly/z8HZ50xKKvTView quoted post on X