(2010-09-24) Ideo Future Book

IDEO shows Video of 3 concepts of near-future EBook-s.

• Nelson: surround book with Dialogue/debate

• Coupland: tie into your professional Social Network to help you find what you should be reading to keep up

• Alice: turn fiction into ARG, with Co-Creation

Cory Doctorow isn't impressed: it feels more like the kind of thing you'd get if Time's business reporter put in a couple calls to the tablet vendors and a couple of corporate futurists and built from there. There's nothing here that excites, nothing that projects much past the present-day, and nothing that has that "out-of-the-box" frisson I get from the best of IDEO's designs and provocations.