Writing The Future: How Digital Books Will Change The World And Going Mobile: Building For The New Mobility

Writing The Future: How Digital Books Will Change The World And Going Mobile: Building For The New Mobility - "Almost six centuries ago, when Gutenberg's press first made printed information widely available, the world saw an explosion of creativity. Educational, political, and religious institutions that had calcified over centuries were radically transformed as those who had once been excluded found new opportunities to participate. The resulting transformation unleashed the waves of invention that created the modern world. Unfortunately, the mechanisms are going rusty again, and new generations are finding themselves locked outside. People feel alienated, disengaged, overwhelmed...

"Yet a new generation of mobile technologies is emerging to reenergize the system and the first true digital books–books that are location-aware, media-rich, broadly-interlinked, and socially-connected–are just on the horizon, offering a kind of access never seen before. Bill Rankin explored the ways that books are metamorphosing and consider the rich creative possibilities the new digital Gutenberg will bring in the coming information age."