After more than thirty years of fits and starts, a storytelling revolution is finally about to begin. Naturally, the catalyst was a book; surprisingly, however, it was a high school text book...
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| Immersive and interactive digital books will soon be jumping off screens everywhere... (Image via Creative Commons) |
School, text books, and reading…ho-hum.
The average person is as likely to sit through a keynote presentation on those two topics, as work on their taxes for fun. And this new software isn’t even wrapped in shiny high-tech aluminum: a baby iPad to combat Amazon’s encroaching Kindle Fire. As I watched the footage of the keynote, and it become apparent there was going to be no iText, iTome, or iTablet reader—just a pair of “un-Jobs” like Apple executives walking the audience through the pages of a digital biology text book—I was sorely tempted to give up early on the hour long presentation.
Apple Education Keynote, January 2012
But I’m very glad I didn’t. It isn't often that you get the chance to be on the ground floor of history as it happens. Stop, and bookmark this moment in your life (it happens right around time marker 23:52 in the video above).
It might seem like a trivial thing, but imagine if you could remember the exact moment mankind learned to use fire as a tool, or how to farm, or how to surf the net on the world’s first web browser? Imagine if you could remember where you were, and what you were doing, when a major cultural revolution happened?
