Dr. Michio Kaku | Theoretical Physicist. Author. Professor.

New Discovery Series - 2057>

"...at least one of the following propositions is true:
(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage;
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation."

The Simulation Argument
Nick Bostrom
Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University

"...the real change we must confront and understand is not a new selection of canonical great books but, as our expressive radical moves from print to screen, a new conception of human reason and how Western culture creates and transmits it."

The electronic word: Democracy, technology, and the arts, Richard Lanham (1993)

"Bell Labs scientist Thomas K. Landauer (pictured above) determined in 1984 that human beings can retain about 2 bits of memory per second. This holds under all experimental conditions whether the information is visual, verbal, musical, etc."

via Accelerating Future who mention the intriguing
Social Life of Information

Bob Stein, new media pioneer, creater of TK3, interviewed in Halo by "This Spartan Life" about future of the book as a networked, media rich, mutating, 3D navigatable space.

Bob Stein: "The much more significant issue about the book of the future is that they will be networked, and won't be frozen; they'll change over time, quite rapidly...[and re: Muriel Cooper's work on navigable 3D space]...To be able to walk around in a book this way will be brilliant."