ANKOB
A
New Kind
Of Book
About
A New
Kind Of
Book
An
Interactive All-Media Experience You Help Create And Control
A
Radical New Kind Of Book
Get
ready to experience a really, really different world.
You
are, in the next moments, about to discover and read a "book"
that does not yet exist.
In
part, it's not on a server in one place or another. In
total, it's not fully written or in print.
It
patiently awaits somewhere in a future space-time continuum. It will
be created, modified, read, and expanded on the fly. Instantly.
Best
of all, on many levels,
YOU
are both a reader and finishing author.
We
simply provide the ingredients with which you finish baking the
bread.
Your
book will be quite different than ours. Different from all
others. Unique.
Individual.
Yours only.
Let's
see how and why.
ANKOB
COMPONENTS
The
most important component is the source of all knowledge and wealth.
The
HUMAN MIND.
•
Your
mind.
•
Other
minds.
•
Our
minds.
Minds
coming together to use tasty ingredients and marvelous tools; all
in one place, on any screen, at any time.
An
informational Knowledge
Package of
the important
kind where you participate in a radical concept limited only by your
interests and how long you live.
CONTENTS:
- LINKS
- TEXT
- GRAPHICS
- AUDIO – VIDEO
- Social Media
- Cloud Computing
- ALL-media Visual (Mind) Maps
- eBooks using DNL Reader and format.
SUPPORTING PLATFORMS
Comes
Now A “Dazzlement”
Get
ready for what may pancake you to the floor in catatonic awe.
Carefully read what Kevin Kelly recently wrote:
I
have a piece in the August 2010 issue of the Smithsonian
magazine, their 40th Anniversary issue.
They
commissioned 40 views of the future. I wrote about the future of
reading, or what they titled ...
Reading
in a Whole New Way.
An
excerpt:
And
it demands more than our eyes. The most physically active we may get
while reading a book is to
flip
the pages or dog-ear a corner. But screens engage our bodies. Touch
screens respond to the
ceaseless
caress of our fingers. Sensors in game consoles such as the Nintendo
Wii track our hands
and
arms. We interact with what we see.
Soon
enough, screens will follow our eyes to perceive where we gaze.
A screen will know what
we
are paying attention to and for how long. In the futuristic movie
Minority Report (2002), the character played by Tom Cruise stands in
front of a wraparound screen and hunts through vast archives of
information with the gestures of a symphony conductor.
Reading
becomes almost athletic. Just as it seemed weird five centuries ago
to see someone read silently, in the future it will seem weird to
read without moving your body. Books were good at developing a
contemplative mind.
Screens
encourage more utilitarian thinking.
A
new idea or unfamiliar fact will provoke a reflex to do something:
•
to research the
term,
•
to query your
screen “friends” for their opinions,
•
to find
alternative views,
•
to create a
bookmark, to interact with or tweet the thing rather than simply
contemplate it.
Book
reading strengthened our analytical skills, encouraging us to pursue
an observation all the way
down
to the footnote.
Screen
reading encourages rapid pattern-making, associating this idea with
another, equipping
us
to deal with the thousands of new thoughts expressed every day.
The
screen rewards, and nurtures, thinking in real time.
- We review a movie while we watch it.
- We come up with an obscure fact in the middle of an argument.
- We read the owner’s manual of a gadget we spy in a store before we purchase it rather than after we get home and discover that it can’t do what we need it to do.
If
you delight in reading the work of deep thinking, insightful, and
highly intelligent people, dock your ship at Kevin Kelly's pier
for a cargo of wisdom.
You
will learn something.
While
we wait for Kevin Kelly's future, let's get on with our story in the next post, Part
2.
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