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TECHNOLOGY It’s not like me to dedicate an entire blog post to the purpose of promoting a link to some other site – like so many other bloggers seem to do – but this one definitely needed some shout-outs.

As an ardent theoretical¹ futurist, and someone who reads quite a lot (especially during the commute to and from work), I’ve long been predicting the severe crippling, if not complete demise of printed media — with the exception of the odd sentimental item or work of historical importance.

Craig Mod has penned a fantastic essay about how the iPad, and I’m sure generations of future tablet computers, will finally give us the alternative to the cheap paperback. He also peppers his article with some great fundamentals of content design and information architecture theory which will appeal to the budding designers out there – some theory that will appeal to web designers too and is directly analogous to the presentation/data layer split in a web page’s architecture.

It’s great to see these points that I’ve been trying to make for so long be put forward so much eloquently than I have been able to.

Ironically, I really want to print it. Read it here:

Books in the Age of the iPad by Craig Mod.

¹ ‘Theoretical’ because I can’t afford everything I want to.