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So I was reading a post over at screwcollege365 that was talking a little about how the author felt that video games have more to offer than books because you can use them to interact with other people and be part of a community.
It made me think about an article I’d read a while back that was pointing to the future of books being an interactive and community based experience. As in one day we’ll all be able to go into the digital books we read and automatically interact with other people who are reading the same book.
I definitely feel that this is where books are headed in the not too distant future. One of the things that the rise of the internet has shown is that people desperately want to communicate and connect with each other and the easier/more creative it is the better.
I think as books truly find their way into the digital world we’ll see all sorts of interesting evolutions like video games being embedded directly into books as a way to chat and interact with other fans.
For example imagine you’re reading Ender’s Game and you get to one of the parts about the battle room where one army is fighting another. Click on something on the page and it changes to a game based on that part of the book, there you can play against other people reading that same chapter. Test out the tactics and maneuvers mentioned in the chapter or try to come up with your own, all the while being able to chat via sidebar or mic.
And once you finish the book you get an option to go to a message board and game room to mull over the book with others who have finished it or even re-read(play) it with a particular person or group of people.
Does this all sound kind of radical and crazy? I don’t think it is, to me this just feels like the natural evolution of books when they get mixed with internet enabled technologies. What do you think though, what will books be like in the future?
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Technology Age has just begun, It is not hard to believe that this is what future holds for us.
It´s not incredible, softwares Engineers have spoke already about new ways to store information in what they call a cyber cloud, in present we have these devices Ipad and many things that people use in daily basis for many reasons when our Grandfathers did in the old fashion or just couldn´t.
In the past who would have belived on Cellphones? But here we are!
What I wouldn´t like is the experience of feeling the real paper in your hands to disappear, but ofcourse every side has its charm!
Touch a hand through the screen It´s a highest level that technology can bring to us in the future :)
Thanks for your thoughts on this Nairim! You made a good point about cellphones btw, who would have ever believed it?
These magical devices that are always right next to us everywhere even when we sleep or shower? They hardly should be called phones at all since usually we do more texting and games and stuff like web browsing on them than phone calls.
I think this same kind of thing will happen to books as well. We’ll call it a book but it will do so much more than just display words to be read, it will display an interactive world based on the stories it holds.