1. The decline & fall of books: future of reading
Mathias Klang @klang67

2. Reading is an
idealized activity

3. Good reader

4. Bad reader?

5. Law
democrac
y

6. Law
Contextual &
programmed social
rules
Architecture

7. Only technology
(spot the ethical dilemma?)

9. 2011
2010
2009200720021999
1993 2004

10. This is not a book

11. Pinch & swipe gestures

12. ”It was as if a light had
been Nookd in a carved
and painted lantern....”
Tolstoj War & Peace

13. What do we own?

14. Pushing connectivity

15. Blogger1999Google1999
End of communications monopoly

16. Normalizing the abnormal

17. “My fear is that these
technologies are
infantilising the brain into
the state of small children
who are attracted by
buzzing noises and bright
lights, who have a small
attention span and who
live for the moment.”
Prof. Susan Greenfield

18. How we read

21. Changing the marketplace

23. Alternative marketplaces

26. What we chose to read

27. pdf paradox
en förmåga att läsa
längre samman-
hängande texter och
att utveckla djupare
läsförståelse…

28. To be Honest the
future is a dystopia for
publishers, booksellers
& anyone who
attempts to maintain a
gatekeeper role. Sorry,
but your current
business model is no
longer relevant to our
reality.

29. Horror stories

30. In scarcity access is everything.
- In surplus its annoying.
“who told me” becomes
more important than “who
made it”. Sandra Snan

31. End of culture: can the infinite be shared?

32. Algorithmic recommender systems

33. Do not do unto
others as you would
that they should do
unto you. Their
tastes may be
different.
George Bernard Shaw

34. Algorithm fail

35. This is not a library

36. Infrastructure of deep knowledge

37. What does it
all mean?

38. Old stupidity or
new intelligence?

39. Endless personal library

40. End of culture: can the infinite be shared?

41. Tailored books: what sells in
Nebraska or
Sweden

42. There is
no book…
there are
still
readers

43. THANKS!

44. Mathias Klang
klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
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