Street lit is controversial stuff. Even though street lit is a huge hit with today's teens, one will not find the semiautobiographical novels of Vickie Stringer and Nikki Turner, the grandes dames of urban fiction, on many (if any) high school reading lists or, for that matter, on some public libraries' shelves. That's because street lit (aka…

Selective analysis of the library literature affirms the difficulty of predicting accurately the rate of technological change and the interpretation of trends. A juxtaposition of the library predictions and those of science fiction writers reveals surprising bibliographic visions of the future. Nine references are listed. (MES)