The Institute for the Future of the Book “investigates the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens.” As you may have noticed, here at the Rumpus, we’re pretty interested in that too.
We, though, still very much believe in the printed page, while it seems that the Institute for the Future of the Book is convinced that the transition to digital is inevitable. They have a plethora of ongoing projects, including The Googlization of Everything, and have also tried their hand at creating a new type of ebook, called Sophie, which can be written by “one person, not a programmer, in hours not days.” An interesting “think-and-do tank” that is doing good work and worth checking out.
