Book of the Future

Last month at the South by Southwest fest, attendees may have had a look at the book of the future. Brad King reported on it in Technology Review: Future of the Book: The $100 Laptop:

The laptop was small enough that you could tote it around, sit down under a tree with it, and start reading. When you're finished, you simply fold it up and carry it home.

The minicomp is being developed as part of the One Laptop per Child project of the faculty members at the MIT Media Lab. The Internet Archive will provide wireless access to 150,000 books in its Open Access Text Archive.