On the satire site McSweeney’s, novelist James Warner has taken a crack at that favorite discussion topic of publishing right now, the future of the book. His predictions start out relatively sensible (“2020: All Books Will Be Cross-Platform and Interactive”) and then go right off the deep end.
It’s a hilarious article, and does not forget to poke fun at that favorite luddite cause, the smell of books. If you want to know more about the way the future of books probably will not go, check it out.
(Found via eBookNewser.)
Some predictions. Many of the things he postulates for 30-40-50 years out are happening now. And I released myself as a Tamagochi two years ago. I died within 4 months.