Barbara Fisher, an academic librarian in Minnesota, recently penned this interesting essay for Inside Higher Ed about the future of libraries as prophesized by Melvil Dewey in a 1901 article:
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/are-we-there-yet
Do you know of other historical articles that make predictions about libraries? If so please send them to me.
Best,
Brett