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The Future of the Book | ideo.com
We currently see these two sets of traits—fixity versus fluidity—as opposites, driven by the dominant technology of the era. Paper favors fixity; electrons favor fluidity. But there is nothing to prevent us from inventing a third way—electrons embedded into paper or any other material. Imagine a book of 100 pages, each page a thin flexible digital
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With Microsoft pushing the CD-ROM concept, the conventional wisdom at the time was that products delivered on floppy disks, with so much less “richness” than what a CD-ROM would hold, wouldn’t be competitive in the new razzle-dazzle marketplace of products that CD-ROM drives in every computer would create. And thus began a wild goose chase that las
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El estado de la tecnología de consumo a finales de 2014 – Stratechery por Ben Thompson
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