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The Future of the Book | ideo.com
Fifth, we have taken long-form works as the great achievement of human knowing because they have the luxury of developing ideas to completion. But now that ideas are freed of bound pages for their embodiment, it turns out that long-form works were never nearly long enough.
David Weinberger • Too Big to Know
The more Springwater and Mackenzie thought about it, the more they thought they could build a better way. What they built became an app called Matter, a combination of a read-later app and a discovery engine for great content. Ultimately, Springwater said, it could be even more. "Reading right now is really simple," he said. "It's text on a page. B... See more
David Pierce • Spotify for Readers: How Tech Is Inventing Better Ways to Read the Internet
In the largest view, I see a deep transformation in the nature of reading, a shift from focused, sequential, text-centered engagement to a far more lateral kind of encounter.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
