So THAT's how they're going to fix Social Security... it was just a life expectancy problem.

Because in the US, The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

I would have thought that given these issues, public libraries wouldn't have jumped on the bandwagon. Apparently the "With our reader, you can borrow ebooks from your local public library" advertising bit worked quite well. "But the ad said I could borrow ebooks from my library... why don't you have them?" No administrator wants to look like they're behind the curve.

Imagine, 50 years from now, a kid goes to the library. What does he see?

It's pretty useful as a simple common platform for sending/receiving short alerts, like commuter rail updates. You can also use the web URL, e.g. http://twitter.com/VaRailXpress to check for recent tweets without ever signing up.

As far as U.S. states are concerned, I'd place my bet on one where public libraries are required by state law to install internet filtering on public PC's.