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Originally Posted by sealbeater
What would be nice is to have an ebook reader like the book in Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age. Something that you could give to a child and it would educate and entertain according to the child's needs. A nice durable book that could be dropped and that was about the size and thickness of a real paperback book. With pages you could turn that would change as you turned them.
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Any tablet could do that now. The only problem is that when authors dream this stuff up, they don't take into account the real world. Marketers are going to want to jam their ads in. People in general are stupid. Programming devolves to the lowest common denominator.
At one point, TLC was The Learning Channel and Bravo was so named because it focused on art and culture.