The Future of the Book according to me :)

What I thinkabouttheFuture of BooksJusto Hidalgo (@justohidalgo)September 24th, 2011

Thisis a translated and enhancedversion of thepresentationgiven at TEDxMadridonSeptember 24th, 2011

Bookshavebeen a vital mapfor me…

Theelectronicbookisharshlyattacked

The pen is a virgin…
… theprintingpress, a whore
- JudgeFilippo di Strata, XVthcentury

Sacred
Jerusalem
Serapeumof Alexandria
RomanEmp.
Antioch
RomanEmp.
Philosophy
China
Christian
RomanEmp.
213 BC
168 BC
303 AD
325 AD
392 AD
Nalanda (DharmaGunj)
GuptaEmp(India)
WisdomHouse
Bagdad (Iraq)
Historiccodexes
Aztecstates
Non catholic
Spain
Talmud burnings
Book Burning
1480 AD
1193 AD
1242 AD – 1568 AD
1258 AD
1427 AD
Maya Sacred
SpanishEmp.
Protestant
Salzburg
In Braille
Paris
Cuakers
Boston, USA
Anti-communist
Russia
Decameron
Italy
1945AD–1989 AD
1497 AD
1562 AD
1656 AD
1842AD
1656 AD
Univ. ofLeuven
Belgium
PompeuFabra lib.
Spain
Univ. ofLeuven
Belgium
National Lib.
Iraq
Anti-nazi
Germany
1914 AD
1930 AD – 1940 AD
1939 AD
2003 AD
1940 AD

At leastthey can read!

Butthebookkeptbeingstrong as itis a true and reliablerepresentation of ourstories, experiencies and knowledge

Today’sebooks are the “radio withtalkingheads” that TV was at thebeginning

Conversation
Discovery
Openness

Beautifulbutstatic

Static

Whatifwe break thewallbetweenthebook and thereaders?

And withthe autor?

Findwhatyouwant

Bookcrossingisserendipity…

… Twittertoo

Explicitcontext

Implicitcontext

Thebook as an “applicationcontainer”
Open Bookmarks

Book orapp?

Informationis Digital;
Beautyismade of Paper
- JuliusWiedemann

Aren’tthesebeautifulchallenges?

Bookshavebeen a vital mapfor me… nowtheywill be my GPS
- Justo Hidalgo

Eagerfor more?

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19. Marginaliafrom Sir Isaac Newton: http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/marginalia-in-the-18th-19th-centuries-it-was-the-custom-to-write-in-the-margins-of-books
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21. 24symbols
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29. Icons from W3C, W3C HTML5, W3C CCS3, IDPF, IDPF EPUB and OpenBookmarks
30. The Waste Land, the Faber&Faber; Urki–Másallá del bosque, fromPixel Moon
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36. GoodReads
37. Amazon.com

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