Comments on: What will reading look like in 2010? http://futurismic.com/2009/12/31/what-will-reading-look-like-in-2010/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Stephen R http://futurismic.com/2009/12/31/what-will-reading-look-like-in-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-65494 Stephen R Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:13:17 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=9885#comment-65494 "I don’t want to be tied to one retailer (same reason I don’t have an iPod)" iPods don't tie you to one retailer. Well, okay, only one company makes the *device*, but that's generally true of any commercial device. The music can come from pretty much any source -- CD rips, Amazon Music, iTunes, any old MP3.... In fact it was Steve Jobs campaigning for the big studios to allow him to sell music without DRM, and he got what he wanted. No more DRM on iTumes Store music. :-) (Though, ironically considering the post topic, I believe audiobooks from iTunes are still DRM. So what -- just buy CDs and rip them....) You're right about eBooks though. The Amazon Kindle is pretty much exactly what people (falsely) accused the iPod of being for all those years. You're at the mercy of Amazon for most content and it is locked down hard. “I don’t want to be tied to one retailer (same reason I don’t have an iPod)”

iPods don’t tie you to one retailer. Well, okay, only one company makes the *device*, but that’s generally true of any commercial device. The music can come from pretty much any source — CD rips, Amazon Music, iTunes, any old MP3….

In fact it was Steve Jobs campaigning for the big studios to allow him to sell music without DRM, and he got what he wanted. No more DRM on iTumes Store music. :-)

(Though, ironically considering the post topic, I believe audiobooks from iTunes are still DRM. So what — just buy CDs and rip them….)

You’re right about eBooks though. The Amazon Kindle is pretty much exactly what people (falsely) accused the iPod of being for all those years. You’re at the mercy of Amazon for most content and it is locked down hard.

]]> By: khannea http://futurismic.com/2009/12/31/what-will-reading-look-like-in-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-64435 khannea Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:07:34 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=9885#comment-64435 Many consumers are actually quite victorian. I wouldn't say they aren't ready for these upgrades - most people are - they are just not equipped for it. They'll say, yah, let's give it a try, and more than half the markets will succumb to future shock, an electric sense of dissociation, confusion, misattribution and outright overload. It won't be just the dead horse of overload (or as Jamais calls it FSS?) but rather will have may come with a severe political backlash. Imagine all those insightful graphics and zillions of dinosaur journalists now forced to study interaction design, modular ly-out, dynamic content (or whetyever other lingo I could have sterlinged out of my thumb) and come up with a medium and message that competes. Err facts might attain more impact value with those graphic depicting tools. Sure you can always confuse people with em, but I think it will be easier to make bullshit falsifiable given these tools. Oil industries won't like that. Sinister Gorean carbon NewWorldOrders might be gnashing their teeth. The Anti-Smoking lobbyists of the near future might get upset. Name any heated cause - pro/con climate change, peak oil, abortion, medical insurance, pentagon expenses, weapons trades, the third world, the palestine conflict - what if a few billion consumers don't just watch factoids not in soundbytes but are immersed in a culture of actual information. A culture of information, where presentation, capturing interest, actual content, sensible agenda outwits the alternatives? I mean, certain rightwing interests (and I am being blissfully optimist here) might be really unhappy about this. Internet pushed voters towards one direction of the spectrum. Internet mobilized people to vote. These media might accelerate that process significantly. Many consumers are actually quite victorian. I wouldn’t say they aren’t ready for these upgrades – most people are – they are just not equipped for it. They’ll say, yah, let’s give it a try, and more than half the markets will succumb to future shock, an electric sense of dissociation, confusion, misattribution and outright overload. It won’t be just the dead horse of overload (or as Jamais calls it FSS?) but rather will have may come with a severe political backlash. Imagine all those insightful graphics and zillions of dinosaur journalists now forced to study interaction design, modular ly-out, dynamic content (or whetyever other lingo I could have sterlinged out of my thumb) and come up with a medium and message that competes.

Err facts might attain more impact value with those graphic depicting tools. Sure you can always confuse people with em, but I think it will be easier to make bullshit falsifiable given these tools.

Oil industries won’t like that. Sinister Gorean carbon NewWorldOrders might be gnashing their teeth. The Anti-Smoking lobbyists of the near future might get upset. Name any heated cause – pro/con climate change, peak oil, abortion, medical insurance, pentagon expenses, weapons trades, the third world, the palestine conflict -

what if a few billion consumers don’t just watch factoids not in soundbytes but are immersed in a culture of actual information. A culture of information, where presentation, capturing interest, actual content, sensible agenda outwits the alternatives? I mean, certain rightwing interests (and I am being blissfully optimist here) might be really unhappy about this. Internet pushed voters towards one direction of the spectrum. Internet mobilized people to vote. These media might accelerate that process significantly.

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