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Friday, October 1, 2010

The team at IDEO looks to the future of the book

One of our main sources of information is still the good old book. The book has been around for centuries and has not changed it's format much over time. Even the e-books we get these days are usually designed to give you the look and feel of a traditional book because we are so use to it. But times are changing as we know. Who still has the bookshelf full of encyclopedias' any more?

The Team at IDEO, who I have a lot of time for, have been doing some thinking on the future of the book. Take a look at this video and see for yourself what they see.

There are some great comments below the video, most of the people love the possibilities these concepts would offer but as always there are some who do not.

I agree there are times all you want to do is read a book like you always have but I am sure there can be a function where you turn off the smarts if you do not want them. I see the sorts of things IDEO are presenting would make the reading experience much more valuable, informative and rewarding to me than reading a normal book.

In terms of our product, myINFOSAFE , I see these concepts would open up the need for us to have better ways to manage more information, keep track of ideas that flow from reading in a more non linear way. Something for us to think about for future versions of our software.

So what do you think, let's hear your thoughts.