Bob Stein Wants to Change How People Think About the Book
He foresees the evolution of reading from a solitary pursuit into a communal, electronically networked activity—something he calls social reading. The advantages of digital technology "are so weighted toward collaboration that people will tear down the existing structures and build something new," Stein said while sitting among the jammed but now rarely touched bookshelves in his Brooklyn home.
Head of the ambitiously named Institute for the Future of the Book, Stein is one of a collection of programmers, philosophers and other deep thinkers who debate where things are heading in online venues such as a conference
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