Inquiries in design, complexity, & collective wisdom
Boston.com reports on the end of books, as we know them, at least for this Boston area prep school.
Cushing Academy has all the hallmarks of a New England prep school, with one exception.
This year, after having amassed a collection of more than 20,000 books, officials at the pristine campus about 90 minutes west of Boston [...]
What is “the book” becoming? Will we see the eBook becoming a better delivery of the “reader’s experience?” Or will the printed, bound book continue to deliver a superior interface? In what situations will an eBook outperform the print book? What features will enable the eBook reader to finally excel in supporting a human reader [...]
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write
Required reading – Steven Johnson believes eBooks are at a significant tipping point and a widely innovative range of uses will proceed. This is based largely on the Google hegemony of access, visibility, and social interactions around the book. It also sounds a bit like [...]
Industrial and communications designers, authors, new publishers, product innovators - Everyone is rethinking The Book in 2009. So then who owns the concept of the book, anyway? Publishers? Society at large? Those of us who say so? And if we say so, does said ownership prevent certain types of innovation? What we don’t know about [...]
The New York Times started tracking Twitter news activity last year, but typically with tongue-in-cheek articles, such as the insets about celebrity Twitterers (that were in the print Times only!) Now the papers may be getting concerned that their original core value – editing and producing the news – may be getting twittered away.
In Twitter’s [...]
