Visionaries thought technology would change books. Instead, it's changed everything about publishing a book.
Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage
Google said it will continue to evaluate its approach “as the world of book publishing evolves.”
The New Age of Reading
Alarm about declining interest in books is perpetual. But, as bookselling reaches unexpected heights, James Daunt, the chief executive of Barnes & Noble, thinks a different future is at hand.
Writing books isn't a good idea
Could the creator economy provide a better one?
These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech
Use our new search tool to see which authors have been used to train the machines.
Publications
(Re)envisioning and creating just and sustainable futures for information technologies.
What I Learned About the Future by Reading 100 Science Fiction Books, Part II
This is Part 2 of an experiment in science-fiction prototyping, in which I try to visualize the future by pulling together ideas from 100…
The best sci-fi and fantasy books of 2023
It’s been a stellar year in speculative fiction
As We May Think
“Consider a future device ... in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go From Here?
This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB.
Imagining your future projects is holding you back.
There is no book. There is only Idea Debt.
The Revolutionary Effect of the Paperback Book
This simple innovation transformed the reading habits of an entire nation
Why AI Companies Are Buying—And Then Destroying—Old Books
We've long joked about delaying bedtime in order to read the entire internet, but the prospect of actually doing so doesn't sound as appealing as it used to. An ever-growing proportion of text online, we may sense, hasn't been written by humans, but generated by artificial intelligence.
What I Learned About the Future by Reading 100 Science Fiction Books
Over the past two years I’ve read 100 science fiction books, averaging about one per week. See the full list here, with my favorites.
The present no longer lasts long enough to be a setting. All fiction is either science fiction or historical fiction. I've been saying this for long enough that even this statement itself is no longer true. The future doesn't last long enough either. All science fiction is now retrofuturism.
