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A Look at IDEO's Book of the Future

  • September 22, 20101:30 pm PDT
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As Zach mentioned, the incomparable design firm IDEO has created three visions of the book of the future, all of which exist, predictably, on some sort of iPad-like tablet.

 

The first one, with its fact-checking feature, is kind of appealing to me, and it's undeniably fun to imagine how technology might change the reading experience. That said, what I actually want right now, much more than a Book of the Future with new "informational layers" and a social recommendation system, is simply more time to read the books of the present.