Books seem to be having an identity crisis lately. Prints on neat, bound paper generated no confusion, but now that books have gone digital the world seems to be having trouble labeling the format relationships. Is an ebook just a non-printed digital book? Should printed books be called pbooks now? And when ebooks outsell printed more »
I had a nice time with the #scifichat session on Twitter today. It was a good, if light, discussion of the genre and its fans. I’ll definitely make it a point to be on for that more often going forward. Busy with 4th of July prep this week; too many things to do. I have more »
Patty Jansen recently blogged about the problem of writing possible futures that fail to work out in “The Trouble with Science Fiction.” To state her point: “The trouble with Science Fiction, especially near-to-medium future SF, is that it frequently seems… dated.” I don’t disagree, and certainly I’ve also stated previously that “most science fiction gets more »
I’ve been making a few design changes this weekend. I’m very happy with my Japan-inspired custom theme, but I wanted to tech it up a bit more, so I’m “digitizing” some of the background textures with a more pixelated-mosaic look. The changes are mostly subtle at this point, with more to come going forward. Also more »
As a followup to my recent post on Augmented Reality Devices, I wanted to write something on how the technology is likely to develop in the near future. There are three books that come to my mind when I think of AR, and they illustrate the current trends beautifully for anyone interested in augmented reality more »
Rollable displays are almost here. There have been a number of concept designs and prototypes displayed in recent years with mainstream commercial application imminent. Some models have a display that folds in one or more places, while others go further with screens that roll up like a windowshade. My hope is that with all the more »
We are well on our way to a future of technology convergence where universal devices can do pretty much whatever we need them to. We already have camera phones that play video, read ebooks, and access GPS maps with the ability to customize features even further via thousands of app installs. What’s the next big more »
