IN: The Book Turns Out to be An Incredible Device
Submitted by dale.peskin on Wed, 02/20/2008 - 20:52.
Eric showed The Kindle, the device that is reinventing the book. Want to know more? Read Newsweek tech reporter Steve Levy's stunning review of Amazon's new device. Gotta get one.
Here's a taste of Levy's tory and link to it:
Technology," computer pioneer Alan Kay once said, "is anything that was invented after you were born." So it's not surprising, when making mental lists of the most whiz-bangy technological creations in our lives, that we may overlook an object that is superbly designed, wickedly functional, infinitely useful and beloved more passionately than any gadget in a Best Buy: the book. It is a more reliable storage device than a hard disk drive, and it sports a killer user interface. (No instruction manual or "For Dummies" guide needed.) And, it is instant-on and requires no batteries. Many people think it is so perfect an invention that it can't be improved upon, and react with indignation at any implication to the contrary.
"The book," says Jeff Bezos, 43, the CEO of Internet commerce giant Amazon.com, "just turns out to be an incredible device."
