Some [good thoughts about the future of books, reading, and the imagination](http:\/\/sprintbeyondthebook.com\/2014\/05\/the-future-of-imagination\/):<\/p>\n
> Looked at against richer media, it\u2019s kind of amazing that books still exist at all. They don\u2019t move. They can\u2019t carry a tune. They\u2019re simply not capable of the kind of visual beauty that we can get elsewhere in the media ecosystem…<\/p>\n
> The thing about books, though, is that it\u2019s not their primitive components that make them work. It\u2019s the imagination of the reader, and that is an incredibly potent \u2014 and timeless \u2014 media tool. The power of a book comes from the act of reading it…<\/p>\n
> What do we want the act of imagination that we call \u201creading\u201d to look like and feel like in the future?<\/p>\n
A couple good examples included as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some [good thoughts about the future of books, reading, and the imagination](http:\/\/sprintbeyondthebook.com\/2014\/05\/the-future-of-imagination\/): > Looked at against richer media, it\u2019s kind of amazing that books still exist at all. They don\u2019t move. They can\u2019t carry a tune. They\u2019re simply not capable of the kind of visual beauty that we can get elsewhere in the media ecosystem……more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,385],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-writing-2","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1nb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5282,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions\/5282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}