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The Future of Reading: Books Without Pages?

October 24, 2009

David Pogue personal-technology columnist, New York Times

Steve Haber Sony, Digital Reading Division

Neil Jones CEO, Interead

Mary Lou Jepsen founder and CEO, Pixel Qi

Brewster Kahle founder, Internet Archive

John Orwant Engineering Manage, Google Books

New York Times personal technology columnist David Pogue takes a look at how reading and books will be experienced in the future. Steve Haber of Sony, Neil Jones of Interead, and Mary Lou Jepsen, founder of Pixel Qi, showcase new technology. Digital librarian Brewster Kahle and Jon Orwant of Google add a big picture perspective on how digitization may change everything. This session also features a musical interlude by host David Pogue.

Series:

Topics: Art & Architecture | Business & Economics | Culture & Identity | History | Literature & Philosophy | People & Places | Science & Nature

Tags: Authors | Books | Kindle | Print | Computing | TV & Radio | Electronics | Web Media | Energy | Engineering | Internet | Landmarks | Design | Lifestyle | North American

Presented By WGBH and Boston Book Festival:

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R. Nicholas Burns

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Lewis H. Lapham

Harper's Magazine editor Lewis Lapham observes that the media these days speak in so many forked and foreign tongues - film, book, video game, broadcast, blog - that without a dictionary or a concordance it is hard to know who is saying what to whom.

Media’s Mixed Messages to Women

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Laughs with Planet Washington

The comedy duo Planet Washington opens Cambridge Forum's 2009 fall season with a benefit performance. Ken Rynne, an alum of the renowned Capitol Steps troupe, and his faithful piano accompanist, Frank Plumer, are Planet Washington.

Media and Movements

Alice Kim, Barbara Becnel, Liliana Segura, and Cassandra West describe how media tools and technologies can be harnessed for social change. They also look at what can be learned from the recent US presidential campaign to reshape grassroots organizing.

The World According to Twitter

Author: David Pogue

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (2009)

Binding: Paperback, 304 pages

David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual

Author: David Pogue

Publisher: Pogue Press (2009)

Binding: Paperback, 304 pages

Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual

Author: David Pogue

Publisher: Pogue Press (2009)

Binding: Paperback, 912 pages

Wais: A Foundation for Network Publishing (Unix and Open Systems)

Author: Brewster Kahle

Publisher: Addison-Wesley (1996)

Binding: Paperback, 400 pages

Programming Perl (3rd Edition)

Author: Jon Orwant, Tom Christiansen, Larry Wall

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. (2000)

Binding: Paperback, 1092 pages

Mastering Algorithms with Perl

Author: Jon Orwant, John Macdonald, Jarkko Hietaniemi

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. (1999)

Binding: Paperback, 701 pages

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