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That brings us pretty much to an other type of media that could exit when computing power gets to par. We have all seen through the news, an experimental cinema where the spectators go through a digitizing sequence at the entrance. When the movie starts some of the spectators become the (partially) unwilling actors of this feature. The stories and their plot, the scenes and the props, the acting and their renditions have all been planned and been imaged ahead, leaving only the actors' physical appearance and rendering to do.
Okay this was the intro.
It could be possible at some point to have something different based on the previous. Imagine this...
You load up a book, any book. Then as in games today, choose your actors and start. The computer using data from all over the world, from all ages, calculates and draws from the story it reads to you. This will mark a point where computers will interpret what they read and see, making them able to render to image what a story conveys. Blank comprehension spots could be narrated or read by a virtual person to let you comprehend by yourself, until the computer can get the story imaged for you in the real time your brain uses to comprehend. The difference with today's performances will lie in that nothing will be prepared in advance. The computer will make up everything as the story goes.
That is when reading books will die. But creating stories will still exist untill the computer can write masterpieces by itself. Depressingly not far off...
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