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- Leo Genazzano
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Can and will books ever be replaced by something other than we know it today?
Can books become completely intangible? Can the "feeling" of a book change with its texture? From clay tablet to papyrus to manuscript to book: will the book morph into something new?
Closing Statement from Leo Genazzano
This brainstorming session focused on the the question "Can and will books ever be replaced by something other than we know them today?". I was surprised to find a diverse collection of answers, many of them thought provoking, insightful, or just plain cool. Go on, take a glance.
For those who are interested to see some more "brain-picking" answers, I recommend Amir Azizi Sarajy, Don Stewart, Mary M, Stuart Woods 's work.
Apr 8 2012: What is the book? What is the language? What is the words? It is the media, we use to communicate, express and share our knowledge and feelings.
To make a movie we need a screenplay, to make a videogame we need a screenplay.
I think books can be replaced only when humankind will create a technology of telepathy=)
Glori Surban
Apr 13 2012: Ebooks are already very popular. I think it will happen, you know, books becoming all digital. But it's still far off. Hopefully, not in my lifetime. I love the feel of good old-fashioned books in my hands...
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Stuart Woods
Apr 10 2012: Waterstones in Britain has the tagline 'Feel every word' and I think this sort of embodies what you mention as the changing nature of how the object feels in our hands. Whilst I don't believe that the electronic devices and the traditional book are mutually exclusive I do recognize the fear people have in any potential demise of the paper format. Paper has morphed over the centuries and now contains much material which our ancestors would not recognize. I have seen 'paper' made from recycled plastic and other objects and as such now need not be made wholly from actual trees. Paper absorbs smell and so will continue to be distinct from an electronic device. Libraries have within them centuries of amassed meaning and and the symbolism of knowledge. The sheer presence of actual knowledge within books will always be seductive and compelling to humans (I like to think more than is wrapped up in our ego) .The electronic device will never replace a book. It does, however, offer a very convenient and portable alternative for NEW reading but does not I believe, stand to represent what we FEEL about ACCUMULATING reading and knowledge. I think of the scene in Harry Potter in Dumbledore's office and despite possessing sufficient magic to hold all his books 'virtually' in time and space he decides to have them exist on paper on towering shelves...why? because of what they represent and project about us as humans. I think paper (in whatever sustainable format it can) will endure. At the other end of the spectrum (literally) and in terms of sustainability, are we ready to ask , what will we do instead of toilet paper in the future? The same predicament exists. Books will live forever!
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Apr 11 2012: Hello Mr. Woods
While I like your answer to my question (especially the example from Harry Potter) I recommend you to see my counter-argument in reply to Mary M.
Couldn't Dumbledore had a library of scrolls? Or Kindles? Don't Kindles represent us humans?
Thank you
Nigel Bamber
Apr 9 2012: What happens if you take a Kindle to a book signing?
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Apr 9 2012: That is rather funny.I wonder if 60 years from now we will wax over the virtues of the kindle and how it smells.
The problem is is that you can't beat a book.
Apr 9 2012: My problem is my house, my garage, my storage lock-up are all full of books. And that's just the ones I plan to refer to or read again. Love books but out of space!
Apr 9 2012: i think that's amazing. but how do you find the one you want ? do you know where they all are ?Apr 9 2012: LoL you need to open your own library or seek digital versions.Apr 9 2012: Started transferring to digital only for all my work about 7 years ago, but have lots of legacy hard copies that are difficult to incorporate into the system. Use a computer based index for the hard copies.
Apr 10 2012: Yes that's a major problem,today's drives are tomorrows legacy drives.I think the IDE drives have a life expectancy of ten years?SSD's 5 years? A book much longer.Even storing online is a risk,look what happened to Capathia's servers when Kim Dotcom was arrested,now all that data will be wiped.
I think the future of physical storage will be through nanotech so that we could have a book that looks exactly like a natural book but instead is a mass storage unit,Sci-Fi-ish but take a look at the next generation of memchips below.
Emo Bear
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A more important question: why does celebritism still affect you? If you like an author's book, then sure, meet the person, ask him or her questions that weren't answered or explained in the book. Talk to him or her about related topics. But getting his or her autograph? That just seems silly to me, like a rock band groupie-type of activity.
Apr 10 2012: I don't think of authors as celebrities, but as someone who has shared their thoughts with me. Signing the book gives the book itself a more intimate connection with the person whose ideas it contains. Signed books in general seem to have a certain aura. Have an aeronautics text book that was owned by Frederick Handley-Page (a pioneer aircraft designer) that he signed. Have a family bible signed by members of each generation of my family since 1879.Apr 21 2012: Hello all TEDies!
Me again. 12 hours to go, and I don't know whether I will have time to say a nice "thank you and goodbye" before the closing words. And I have promised to share my own feelings and thoughts at the end of the conversation. However, I don't think it's fair that I should write my own feelings in the closing line (your ideas are just as smart) so I am writing my own post.
I think that books will live on. I also think that other "writing mediums" (like the Tablet) will enter our world and share the spotlight. Perhaps they will even steal it for a few months. But the book, our tired faithful friend, will stay with us a little while longer.
Practically, it is very useful. It is compact. It can have pictures. You can tell the difference between one and the other at a glance.
This does not mean it will stay with us forever. Nothing human-created stays with us forever. But if so many of us love the book, I don't see a reason it should go. Yet.
Thank you all very much. Have wonderful lives. לחיים.
Leo Genazzano
(By the way, you probably won't care, but this is a pseudonym. Bye!)
Kris Rosvold
Apr 16 2012: I think the book and the CD are both going the way of vinyl in recording. It's unfortunate, and I will not give up real books, or CDs in my lifetime.
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The thing that concerns me most about this trend is that digital information can be changed instantly, and easily, to something completely different. It can also be destroyed with the flick of a button. The other problem with digital is that your access can be limited with the flick of a button (read and analyse your amazon or kindle TOS) Hard-copy is much more difficult to change, and once you pay for it, you OWN it (instead of just "the right to access it"). I would refer you to the recent re-make of the movie "Animal Farm", or better yet, the book by George Orwell.
Ian Gruber
Apr 16 2012: I never really though of a book as anything more than a story to be read. But in reality, books are more than paper with words. Books are decorations, and expression of style, a visual testimony to your personal intellectual journey, sitting right on your bookshelf. Books have a real life presence, they take up space and consume resources... and live far beyond their original reading. They provide a history of memory at a glance. Like photo's or paintings... just because technology can display them on a screen does not diminishthe value of their physical incarnations. I imagine will will continue to see both medium so long as the technologies and resources exist to produce them both.Apr 14 2012: YES !!!... I think that all books can be replaced by something much better. Experiences. Like in the fictional Pensieve in the Harry Potter Series.
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Once we understand and how the brain works, it might be possible to download memories (like in Matrix series) and experiences. Of course there could be many variants of these technologies. But I believe that the demand for tangible books will dwindle over time.Apr 13 2012: Still far off, or hope so :)
Apr 14 2012: ME TOO and ME THREE, and ME FOUR :)Apr 15 2012: Agreed!Apr 11 2012: Sometimes it is not just about the book itself. When someone is on a train, bus or in a public place they say something about themselves with the book they are reading. It allows others to take a glimpse into that persons live and imagine what kind of person they are. It's a social thing.
The same interaction can also influence the watchers decision on the next book they read.
Kindles and others make that kind of interaction impossible and the reader becomes insular.
Will digital effect sales of books?
I believe there is a good case for keeping the book.
Nigel Bamber
Apr 11 2012: I agree, when you visit someones house for the first time, you can find out a lot about the real person by looking at their bookshelfApr 11 2012: I agree. Sometimes is also a way to start a conversation, and you can discover new interesting people for this reason:)Apr 10 2012: The purpose of any book is to convey a message; a story. The manner in which it is transcribed, whether it be on an actual book, tablet (electronic or stone), wall etching or napkin, is secondary to the quality of the communication. Stories were told for thousands of years before tools were created to write them down, and they will continue to be so in the future. I think words are incredibly powerful. They can hurt, they can mend, they can bring great joy or sadness. They can motivate and inspire people to achieve greatness and they can help up to share experiences. I love the physical experience of holding an actual book. I also love the functionality that online e-book offers. But most of all, I love the messages they hold, regardless of what form they take on.Apr 9 2012: One day the content of books will be sent directly into the brain via a USB type plug - thus by-passing the need to visually decode text - the information / emotion will pass straight into our memory.
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Hopefully I'll be long gone by then.
Apr 10 2012: I think the very first person that has that will go into a catatonic state as the brain locks up from a strange rearrangement.
Apr 11 2012: Hay, you're probably right - but even today we have cochlear implants!Apr 11 2012: That is a good idea for the future, but I really hope they know more about the human brain than they do now!Apr 9 2012: I sure hope not.Apr 19 2012: Books, as a mean to lay down information is probably here to stay. It is a way for some people, who like to write, to compose their art in a way that is ireplaceable. The intimacy between the writer and his lines, the way how he can oversee sections of his work and manipulate them to perfect them is not possible by neither voice or video recording; It has to be writing. And some people like to write, it is a form of art, just like composing music, or painting.
Also, some information is most easily accessible via a booklike structure (in spite of the fact that the flow of information this way is quite slow, as a fellow member mentioned earlier). Take for example a documentation: it is very annoying having to wind back a video in order to understand a section which proves difficult to get at such fast pace.
Books as a means of storing information, will probably change. But for that to happen, digital sorage needs to be more reliable by many magnitudes of order compared to how it is now. It will also need to be an open format: it will not be acceptable to be coerced into buying a certain gadget in order to be able to read a book.Apr 19 2012: Story-telling is universal to humanity, perhaps 100,000+ years old.
Books are beloved by many cultures of the world, but they are only
the mass market delivery vehicle of the last few hundred
They will likely be replaced with a new form of technology.
But we must be careful not to throw out the baby, and find
a way to properly reward authors and other book-making
professionals.Apr 19 2012: Hi Leo and thanks for this hot conversation .
you know everyone grows up with a different culture , different heroes , different values , lets say I am writing a book and I say : I saw a very beautiful girl . As a reader you'd immediately think of the most beautiful girl You have seen, not the one I am SHOWING on the screen , so you are relying purely on your cultural , personal life and experience and you d dive into your own world , That is how a book works.
say I am a film maker , and I am saying the same thing on screen , I will show a cute girl, but you may or may not like her , you will see my VISION, not YOURS. That is why I am saying people would get the same thing , I mean , you ask 100 different people about a cute girl and they ll give you 100 different ideas , not a unified single one .
But the biggest difficulty with Books is the fact that they are bounded and limited to the language and culture that created them, that is why Jokes do not work in other languages , hence the term Lost in Translation .
The future needs faster way of information transference , communication and spreading the idea in the shortest possible time.
People do not have time to listen, they might just have enough time to take a look , and they are from hundred different nations , that is why I am saying Cosmopolitanism will take over and images will be more ubiquitous
Best, AmirApr 19 2012: Books as the way they are will be replaced for sure, something like Apple's new Book will take place, something interactive because book by nature is slow, I mean its a pack of organized information and by reading it you r trying to get that packages into your mind , but the pace is really slow and certainly very slow for 21 century.
I think reading would have its place cause its the most abstract way of imagining and imagination practice , I mean if 100 people see a movie they d probably get the same thing more or less but same 100 reading a book , each would make the world of their own.
But I think books in future would rely more on Pictures and Culture free info delivery packs and less on culturally bounded languages based words.
the reason by my sight is Globalism and Cosmopolitanism , people of the world are all connected , and image has a universal language , words do not .
if you show an apple to people from 190 different countries all will have the same idea , granted symbolic use of it might evoke different meaning but say in a normal context , it would seem like apple to all of this Global viewers to say that in words you have to translate it to 170 languages .
Apr 19 2012: Hello Amir
I have understood the general gist of your meaning but there is a slight paradox in your comment. I understand what you said about "if 100 people see a movie they'd probably get the same thing more or less but same 100 reading a book , each would make the world of their own". It is one of the points I like about the book.
However, you also said books will rely more on pictures. A movie, though, is after all a
series of pictures. Can you explain this to me? You are going in a new direction in this talk.
However, I beg you to reply quickly as this conversation ends in 2 days.
Very grateful
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Apr 19 2012: Good day Don
You really are excited about the radio idea! Well, I think the radio is great too. But today it shares the stage with iPods and downloaded music. But it isn't gone entirely...
Maybe that's what's going to happen with books. They might continue being made, while something new (the Tablets and Kindles) will come and steal the spotlight for a while. Maybe the Tablets will return to live a life hand in hand with the book. Like the radio and the iPod.
Thanks for the inspiration, you made my day.
L.GApr 18 2012: Leo sicuro che lei conosce Alessandro Baricco....eil suo libro "I barbari".....
Per non andare senza guida in questo mestiere dei libri e meglio vedere che cosa pensa Baricco e anche Luciano De Crescenzo, e Mondadori, e Latterza e Franco Maria Ricci, e Enaudi, Corraini e tanti altri.
Una domanda per te...A che cosa chiama libro?....sicuro che non e quella da dove nascono i film.....o no?
Apr 19 2012: Hi Jaime
(I am writing in English for the benefit of other users.)
I never have heard of "I Barbari" but according to what I read it seems to talk about a type of dystopia. Have you read it? Can you tell me (us) what it's about?
Apr 20 2012: Leo, the original edition is from Fandango Libri, Roma 2006. and its about the barbarian invasion from inside. Baricco writes about how we lost the original culture aim because we use the short cuts to everywhere. Among this shorcuts are the simulated books, the no-books.Apr 18 2012: I think 'replaced' is the wrong verb. With the advent of the Internet, the TV evolved to digital transmission, we search for information via Google, yet we still have libraries...
So I suppose books will evolve, rather than be replaced.
Apr 18 2012: Loved this understanding and vision....yes evolve....thank you...Phew...many of us are worried...Leo has opened up a can of worms.....Apr 19 2012: Evolved... What a nice verb! I daresay it has a calmer connotation than "changed". How though, aesthetically, will they change? Do you mean that every few years a subtle change- a thinner book cover, a digital blurb- will pass and morph its shape?
I really want to hear as many answers as possible.
L.G.Apr 18 2012: I would like to say no but unfortunately, yes. A good example is the Kindle. Its a hunk of plastic, glass and maybe some metal. I think its ruining our old age tradition of books. When someone gets a new book they can feel the pages and smell that rotten smell that most books have (even though it is nice sometimes). With a Kindle, you cant get that same experience. My point is that we need to keep our tradition of physical books alive. At least, that would be my dream. But instead, we are spiraling downward and Kindles, iPads, and other electronic book readers are leading the way.Apr 17 2012: God I hope not.
My wife tells me constantly that I smell like old books. I take that as a sign of love, even though I know what she's saying is to get my butt out of the library and go help her work in the garden.
Doesn't lend anything to the discussion, but at least you know that there are those of us still here who are enraptured with the tactile presence of the physical book. And even though my iPad does mean I can read in peace while my wife can sleep, but I will state that when armageddon comes and all batteries are dead, then y'all gonna be beating down my door asking for something to read by candlelight.
Not to worry though. The Verble Gherulous library is always free and open to the public.Apr 17 2012: Hello all TEDies
There are 4 more days left till shutdown. I have gathered most of the answers here and divided them into 5 groups.
1. Never going to go away and don't even hint they will!
2. Already gone. The next generation won't even know how to flip a page.
3. Going, going... But not quite gone. They probably will be after I am no more.
4.Should go. Tree-hugging rocks!
5. (new suggestion) going to be only one of the story reading mediums in our future, unlike today, where it is the main device.
Can the answers be categorized differently? Do we need to zoom out to see the answers?
I will try and post my answer (I realize my rhetoric questions are become very tiring) another time.
If anyone knows the answer to this question please help! What happens to the conversation after the discussion time is up? I have never started a conversation until now. Thanks.
Leo G.
Apr 17 2012: Hi Leo, well, you have the ability to extend the conversation by changing the time left....this happens when you log on and come to the conversation. Your screen will look different from ours.Also, when the conversation officially closes, because time has run out, you can go to the conversation, and you will see that there is a special box for you to post 'Closing Remarks'........you will get to have the last word. If you want to know what it looks like, here is a link to a conversation I started, and then closed:
Apr 18 2012: Thanks very much, Mary. I will certainly use your help.
James B
Apr 17 2012: I don't believe that books will ever go out of style. I am a full time student; I read and study basically all the time. Most of my classes have very heavy text books. a few of my classes have just ePub books or short articles to read. once I read the article, my relationship with the article is basically complete. with my text books, I read them, look at diagrams, scribble in the margins, highlight them. I flip the pages madly when looking for answers. when I am done my exams, I put them on my bookshelves to refer back to. I know where the information I want is, I can go back to it.
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reading for pleasure is the same thing. I love flipping pages and holding the book. looking for dogearred pages even years later reminds me of how much I loved my novels. they sit on my shelf, tempting me take a break. my bookshelf is a better testament to my personality and tastes than just about any other object in my house.
I think we might augment books, but I for one will never replace my beloved books.Apr 15 2012: Books made of paper are on a short road to obsolescence. It's progress. It's all good.Apr 15 2012: i believe that the book as we have known it is dying and as the old guard vanishes and that great page turner turns to a great page scroll children are already being turned on to palms its just the way it goes i remember the first time i was first confronted with an escalator scary the steps were moving up to that moment i moved and the steps stood still and so it goes now i see little kids walking towards a door and just keep walking knowing the door will open the coming generations will accept this as normal and then theres the bean counters they are already factoring in what will be saved by this change and the tree huggers are jumping with joy so hold tightly to your tomes they will be joining the dodo bird soonApr 14 2012: Greetings all TEDies
Me again. I would like to remind you that there is one week to post your enlightening, fantastic, awesome, and interesting comments only YOU can write.
I am still perplexed with the question I asked in my previous post ("Does the fact books are relatively common and hold information for everyone make them popular? So popular, in fact, that they will never go away?") and am eagerly awaiting for more examples.
Leo G.
Apr 15 2012: I just thought of something.......why books only......think about a greeting card.......
Isn't it great to get greeting cards and invitations by mail?
There is something totally "humane" in receiving a message IN YOUR HANDS.....you can touch it, smell it, see it, hear it, display it, spray perfume on it.......Well, books are kind of like that.......
It's not the same cozying up to a good book, than cozying up to a metallic cold lighted up screen. You have to be in fear of spilling food on it, a drink could render it useless.......and what about pop up books....the kind you open and bam....a beautiful illustration.......Some books are textured for children to feel....others have holes....like the "very hungry caterpillar"....who eats his way through fruits and cupcakes......I know, these are children books...they will probably continue to be made.
There are also beautifully illustrated adult books. Some books have beautifully edged sides, some have ribbons to mark the pages as you go. I could go on and on Leo.....your question has so many things to say......and being an avid reader and a teacher I have been around so many many books that I can't imagine a world without them.
"To the making of many books there is no end".....Wise King Solomon in Ecclesiastes 12:12
Bet you didn't know the scriptures talked about book making huh??? Look up the text and you'll see the second half of the text......quite a balanced vie of life, if you ask me.
Arrivederci (did I spell that right?)
Apr 16 2012: Hi
I find lots of truth in the paragraphs you wrote. I am guessing that what you wrote could connect with all bookworms in the world. I hope there WILL be bookworms in the future to "feel" the book, as you (and others) said.
This post has given me a new idea. Thanks again for describing your experience.
Apr 16 2012: You are welcome.
I would love to hear what you are going to do with all the information you have collected here.Apr 14 2012: I hope not. Like most people, I still enjoy feeling the pages and hearing every page turn.Apr 14 2012: Yes. In time maybe 50 years maybe sooner. the technology is there to store books digitally store, and I remember that a machine costing 1 million dollars. so when ever a book is wanted it is located digitally and then the machine can send it as an e-boook or print and bind the bind how the customer wishes.Apr 13 2012: EXACTLY... FIRST IMPRESSION IS LAST IMPRESSION...
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Once again I am impressed with the amount of comments the simple question is receiving. I would like to point out a single comment made by Mary M. who upon answering some of my questions said this:
" ... I was under the impression that not everyone had access to scrolls in the old days."
I pondered upon this quote. Excuse me once more as I post yet ANOTHER question to the public.
Does the fact books are relatively common and hold information for everyone make them popular? So popular, in fact, that they will never go away?
I thank you again for your patience
Leo G.
Apr 14 2012: Hey Leo, I think that perhaps the fact that they are readily available, and easy to reproduce, are good reasons why they will not go away any time soon.
Also, think about the fact that alot of the people who read are the retired folks...older population.....I see them all the time sitting at the beach reading and sipping a soda....don't the electronic gizmos have glare issues???.....maybe this is another factor to your question.....I don't know....let's see what others say.
You know, there is a great site for kids "Tumblebooks" that has over 100 books on line, but pictures and all and it is read to the children out loud....afterwards they take a small quiz.....I can see enjoying books this way. But to put them on a small, flat screen.....as far as kids are concerned...I just don't know.
I think the technology complements the real thing. But I find it hard to think of a world without books.Apr 13 2012: My beautiful young intronaut niece
Just finished a 20,000 word girly book and proceeded to announce to me that that was "A mission" I smile when i think of it, so in response to her i told her "Wait til you read books that has 3-500,000 words in them" there was an instant NO! in her eyes.
Apr 14 2012: Ken, hahaha......my daughter read the 13 book series of Limeny Snickets series of Unfortunate Events....plus all the Little House of the Praire books by Laura Ingals Wilder...and she just can't get enough words in.....she walks out of the room in the morning with a book under her arm and I ask most mornings: "Did you sleep with that thing under you arm?".........she smiles and says "oh mom, if only I could read while I'm sleeping"........We ADORE books!!!!!Apr 12 2012: Major publishers (the ones we are familiar with, at least) may die out, but books will not. Ever. They have survived banning, burning and bibliocide throughout history, edured electronic media from the first word processor to e-books, and will continue to thrive in our future. The self-contained, complete hard copy is durable, sharable, transferable, scribblable, quotable, and endlessly reproducible in most available media, video and audio, past, present and future.
Books don't run out of power, and have persisted through thousands of years of technological advancement, prepaid plans, planned obsolescence, unstable service providers. Their only external energy requirement is a secondary light source.
We may eventually download 'content' directly into our brains, but that won't prevent people from writing, crafting, binding, selling, purchasing, reading, trading, re-reading, re-selling, and enjoying the physical, social, and sensual dimensions of books.
Apr 12 2012: Hello Mr. Stewart
Does the fact that books are physically stronger prolong their presence in our culture? Anyone who has read the dystopian novel 1984 is familiar with the concept of "global stupidity"- a puposeful plan to make all humans narrow minded. Books are not read there not because they have not physically survived but because no one wants or needs to read them.
"Books don't run out of power, and have persisted through thousands of years of technological advancement, prepaid plans, planned obsolescence, unstable service providers." In other words, what you have written here is that "survival of the fittest" works for objects as well. Unlike other commenters, you have concentrated on the physical aspects of a book and not it's feel, texture, smell, blablabla.
Personally I do not think the physical aspect of an object guarantees its survival. I m very interested in hearing your response (and of other readers') and would ever be grateful if you find examples of your "survival of the fittest" theory.
Yours Truly
Apr 12 2012: Hello, Mr. Genazzano -
Interesting how you have elected to reduce my comments regarding the longevity of books to the oft-misplaced slogan of an economist. I'm sure if I chose to consider your observation further, there are likely any number of objects that would come to mind whose physical durability alone has allowed them to withstand the rigors of time. That feature may or may not qualify such items to be revered, though, which is why I took time to list a number of other qualities about books that, in my opinion, add to their longstanding and perhaps, hopefully, continuing value - including the sensual (blah-balh) parts.
If indeed we elect to devolve into a world community wherein knowledge is no longer of value, books may not survive. But then, neither may we, for long, under such circumstances. I choose to believe in a future of thinking, feeling, creative, problem-solving human beings. It is arguable that these people may not always have at their disposal the technological marvels we enjoy today. They will, however, have books.
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Is this a significant problem?Apr 12 2012: for me It already has. I love the dictionary, bookmark, highlight functions of iBook. I can't read any books without it.Apr 12 2012: Hi Leo,
Thanks for the reply, frankly the difference between having a pile of Kindles (I'm using a brand name here which seems to already be the shorthand for the electronic device - congrats Kindle join Hoover and Sellotape!) and a pile of books (or indeed scrolls) is the PRESENCE of every word, sentence and paragraph in REAL space, kindles don't (as yet ,but may) evolve in some way but we simply wouldn't accumulate a mass of them because this defeats the object of their compact , portable ability to hold reading matter. Yes they do represent us in a way I guess, just not sure how yet. I do use an electronic device to read and enjoy it very much.Apr 12 2012: They should design more interactive digital books that are geared for more modern and adult users because kids are not the only ones that like moving pictures and games to play while reading. =)Apr 12 2012: for sure, look at what we have seen in the way of changes over the last few yrs. Many people think there will always be books however I do not thnk soApr 11 2012: To the person who is currently reading this comment
I would like to thank anyone who commented (that is, everyone underneath the grey line). They really have said interesting things and I encourage you to read them before posting your own insightful comment. I did not expect the sudden avalanche of "yes"es, "no way"s, and "maybe"s. You have 10 days to scribble your comment.
Remember that Kindles and Tablets are NOT THE ONLY WAY of recording written stories.
Apr 11 2012: who the hell could know it ?Apr 11 2012: Well, maybe, maybe not. It's hard to tell.
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Perhaps if they discover that electronic devices cause major eye damage, then books will continue to thrive.
I love to read magazines and books....the feel of paper in my hand, the feel of the weight of the book, choosing the right book mark for the book I'm reading, whether I choose a gum wrapper, or the envelope by phone bill came in, ......remembering where I read something because I can visualize the exact part of the book or magazine and I can turn to it.....watching the number of pages dwindle as I finish a good book....going to the library and thumbing through the new arrivals........I sure hope books will not be replaced with something else. But even if they are, we still have the old ones, and those can last a long, long, time.
Apr 11 2012: Hello Mary
I like your description of reading with a book.
Let's hypothetically say scientists do find an eye-damaging problem with the Tablet or Kindle. Cigarettes are considered extremely unhealthy today but people still smoke them daily. If and when this generation get's "used to" the Kindle, will they want to go back to books, regardless of eye problems or not?
Another point I wish to make is about your description. If I had asked an ancient Roman the same question but about the stylus or scroll, he (or she) might have described the wonderful feeling of scraping wax off a tablet and the sound of an unwrapping scroll. Both objects are gone nowadays. Do you think books will be an exception?


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Jun 17, 2009
NXT Sequencer
Each coloured ball represents a different note. As the colour sensor passes over the top, the note assigned is played. Different rhythms are possible by placing the zamor spheres in different places on the holder.
Inspiration for this came from the BeatBearing project. http://www.beatbearing.co.uk/
Damien Kee
14 comments:
- William said...
Oh. My. GOSH!! GOLD NXT!! If that's standard in NXT 2.0 I am finally sold on it!!!
- Jun 17, 2009, 10:26:00 PM
- Laurens Valk said...
That's not standard, just a LEGO exclusive :)
- Jun 17, 2009, 11:57:00 PM
- Jojoguy10 said...
So, the gold NXT is an exclusive? Where and how do you get it? Or is it only for special people?
- Jun 18, 2009, 3:12:00 AM
- Pe-ads said...
This is very cool. It's given me some ideas for stuff of my own. The BeatBearing thing is cool as well
The chrome/gold NXT is cool as well. Where/when/how can I buy/steal it?
- Jun 18, 2009, 6:53:00 AM
- megamindstorm101 said...
I was just going to ask if they were planning on selling the gold nxt to the public (like a special as they did with the black nxt) or only to special people :) The first one I saw was on Steve H's trumpet model. THis is the second one i saw. cool model though. I see the color sensor works fairly well and its nice to know that it will be there instead of the light sensor but one question on that will it still be able to do what the old light sensor did (measure refected light and ambient light?) or just colors? Its very nice to see what people have made with the new nxt and i cant wait to get one for myself all the models online all thebooks coming out it looks great.
- Jun 18, 2009, 7:46:00 AM
- Robotica said...
Sorry to disappoint you all...
The white NXT lots (100.000ths)
The Black NXT 1998
The Gold NXT 40
to celebrate 10 years Mindstorms, LEGO made a black exclusive, and then at the 10 years party LEGO handed to a select group (MCP) a celebration gift being the gold NXT.
Still the NXT2 comes with the color sensor, but without the big wheel..
- Jun 18, 2009, 9:39:00 AM
- Brian Davis said...
And let's not forget the even rarer gold RCX (I think there's about 3 of those). But yes, the Gold NXT's are very nice... but this application is even nicer.
- Jun 18, 2009, 12:55:00 PM
- Pe-ads said...
Stealing a gold NXT is now the best option...
- Jun 18, 2009, 6:57:00 PM
- William said...
OK, found my own answer at Brickworld- MUP members got the gold NXT's as a 'thank-you' from LEGO. Also, they have no intentions to make more than the 40 already made at this time. Humph. These'd fly off the shelves quicker than the black NXT's! Petition time!
- Jun 18, 2009, 11:08:00 PM
- NXTBoy said...
Where did the black mobile devastator wheel come from? It's not on peeron...
As for the gold brick, I think there were three of them on display at World fest. Fortunately, they didn't have the same fate as the color sensor (stolen).
I can't even find a picture of the gold RCX on the internet.
I wonder if it'd be possible to reduce the noise of the motors somehow?
- Jun 19, 2009, 5:19:00 AM
- Damien Kee said...
I'm glad people enjoyed it!
The Gold NXT was a very special run and I was very very fortunate to receive one.
I guess this makes a 2nd instrument made with the gold nxt!
- Jun 19, 2009, 2:28:00 PM
- Damien Kee said...
The Black wheel is actuall a green exoforce wheel painted black. I needed to do this as the green wheel gave some odd reading to the colour sensor and it couldn't tell the difference fromt he green zamor spheres.
- Jun 20, 2009, 7:53:00 AM
- Aneta Čižmáriková a.k.a. Riddick said...
amazing! :-D
- Jun 30, 2009, 9:53:00 PM
- Camasthecat said...
The gold NXT is awesome! :) I have the old white. :|
- Nov 29, 2010, 10:22:00 AM


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America's most COURAGEOUS congresman! Wow. I wish there was a pageant so he could wear the sash he probably made for himself. Look at how he looks "forward" from right to the left like we live in an Asian culture. Then again being "progressive" requires backward thinking, so I guess he has that right.
If his wife were in congress is it safe to say she would be America's most courageous congresswoman? She would, after all, have to admit to being Mrs. Kucinich.
So what does a profile in courage look like for America's most courageous congressman?
The Ohio Democrat filed a legal complaint Wednesday in D.C. Superior Court, spelling out the case in chilling detail: The wrap was "unwholesome and unfit for human consumption, in that it was represented to contain pitted olives, yet unknown to plaintiff contained an unpitted olive."...
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How about that? The man who once wanted to be president (and may run again if the mothership doesn't come to collect him) got fragged by an olive pit!
If only he won the presidency....and Reagan were still alive. They could trade stories about their war wounds. The people who voted for Dennis would be SO proud.
What is he suing for? Does he want restaurants to run food through the TSA naked scanners before serving it to him?
Democrats wonder why people know they're weak on national security. Its because they wet themselves over a seed in a sandwich so much that it causes "suffering and loss of enjoyment." It's a wonder that al Qaeda doesn't openly endorse the party...or at least employ reverse psychology and tell us to vote Republican.
Being that liberals are characteristically miserable people as it is (before liberals get mad, stamp their feet and access their dictionary to spell check "racist" and "bigot" --->they should know that it's based on their say so <---), I don't know what enjoyment is lost for the most liberal of congressmen other an injured mouth would prevent hearing himself talk.
Or maybe living in constant hope that people will stop saying he's related to Gollum. Could you imagine if the birthers got all lathered up about a president who may have been born in Middle Earth?
Good luck to you Dennis, don't forget to wear your big boy diapers when you go to court.


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A champion that is manaless does not use nor benefit from mana or mana regeneration. To date, there are 21 champions that do not use mana.
Of the champions the do not use mana, some utilize an alternative resource to cast their abilities.
These champions use health as their casting resource.
These champions use energy as their casting resource.
The remaining manaless champions have no costs related to their abilities.
Alternative Gating Mechanics
In place of or acting as a resource, there are a number of alternative mechanics that gate the availability of a champion's abilities.
Champions who use their own health as their resource: Aatrox, Dr. Mundo, Mordekaiser, Olaf, Soraka, Vladimir and Zac.
These champions use their own health to cast some — or all — of their abilities. Champions can never kill themselves due to ability casting, as their abilities become free at critical levels of health. While these champions can cast their abilities more freely than most, their disadvantage is that frequent ability usage will bring them closer to death. With the exception of Dr. Mundo's Sadism, the ultimate abilities of health-using champions are free of any cost; only gated by cooldown.
It's worth noting that all of these champions have at least one ability capable of restoring their health.
Champions who use energy as their resource: Akali, Kennen, Lee Sin, Shen and Zed
Energy champions use an alternative to mana for spending on abilities. Having a maximum of 200 energy with no growth per level, the main advantage of energy is its rapid regeneration (10 energy per second), so that energy champions are not at the risk of depleting their resource over an extended period of time. The main disadvantage of energy is that its small capacity restricts the rapid usage of multiple spells in a short period of time. The energy resource bar is colored yellow.
Unique to Rengar, Ferocity is generated whenever Rengar lands an ability or passively after Thrill of the Hunt. Rengar can have up to 5 Ferocity, and having maximum Ferocity allows Rengar to use one of his empowered abilities. Rengar's resource bar is divided into 5 sections that appear as he gains 5 Ferocity. While Rengar has between 1 and 4 Ferocity, the sections are colored white. Upon reaching 5 Ferocity, the sections are colored orange.
Fury behaves uniquely on each champion that utilizes it. The only consistent features are that each champion can generate fury on-hit or with their ultimates, and the resource bar is colored red.
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- While burrowed, Rek'Sai will restore health every second at the expense of 20% of her current Fury, based on the amount of Fury expended. Rek'Sai will restore a maximum of (25 × level) health over 5 seconds if she burrowed at 100 Fury. Additionally, Rek'Sai's next attack or damaging ability after unburrowing will grant 15 bonus Fury. While Unburrowed, Rek'Sai generates 5 Fury whenever she damages an enemy which goes up to 100 Fury and will decay at a rate of 20 Fury per second if she has not gained any in the last ~5 seconds.
- Furious Bite: Rek'Sai bites her target, dealing physical damage that is increased by 1% for every 1% of her current Fury. If Rek'Sai has full Fury, Furious Bite will deal true damage instead.
- Renekton's Fury is generated whenever he attacks an enemy, per enemy hit by Cull the Meek and passively during Dominus. If Renekton has 50 or more Fury, his next ability will be empowered at the cost of 50 Fury. Renekton's Fury will begin to deplete if he has not been in combat for 12 seconds. Due to Reign of Anger Renekton's fury generation is boosted by 50% when he is under half health.
- Shyvana does not have access to Fury until she has ranked Dragon's Descent, and she gains a full fury bar (100) once she does for the first time. Shyvana's Fury does not decay and generates passively and whenever she attacks an enemy. 100 Fury is required to activate Dragon's Descent, but activation does not instantly consume all her Fury - instead, it depletes slowly until it runs out. Shyvana can still generate Fury with her basic attacks while it is depleting.
- Tryndamere's Fury is not required to activate any of his abilities, but Battle Fury grants him bonus critical strike chance based on his current Fury and activating Bloodlust will consume his current Fury to empower its healing effect. Tryndamere generates Fury whenever he damages an enemy with his basic attacks or abilities, whenever he kills a unit and when he activates his ultimate, Undying Rage . Tryndamere's Fury will begin to deplete if he has not been in combat for 8 seconds.
Unique to Rumble, Heat is generated whenever he casts one of his basic abilities. Heat rapidly depletes if Rumble has not cast an ability in the last 4 seconds. Rumble gains different effects depending on his current Heat. Heat is displayed in Rumble's secondary resource bar, and is colored differently depending on the current amount.
- 0 – 49 heat — No effect.
- 50 – 99 heat — Danger Zone. Rumble's abilities gain additional effects.
- 100 heat — Overheat. Rumble is silenced and his basic attacks deal additional damage until his heat reaches 0. Visually Rumble's mech is colored bright red and you can hear his cries of discomfort due to the heat.
Unique to Gnar, Mini Gnar will generate Rage whenever he deals damage to any source or takes damage from an enemy champion, plus additional Rage over 3 seconds. If Gnar has not dealt or received damage after 13 seconds, his Rage will start to decay. Rage generation from combat with minions is reduced. The over-time Rage generation cannot exceed 99 Rage from combat with minions if Gnar kills the minion.
When Gnar reaches 100 Rage, he gains access to an alternate set of abilities. After either 5 seconds or upon casting an ability, Mini Gnar will transform into Mega Gnar for 15 seconds while his Rage depletes. Once his Rage is exhausted, he will turn back into Mini Gnar and cannot gain Rage again for 13 seconds.
Other uses of the Secondary Bar
Some champions use the secondary bar to display some ability effects to track them better.
Blood Well
Unique to Aatrox, Blood Well acts as a health reserve should Aatrox take lethal damage - reviving him with an amount of health equal to the Blood Well's contents plus a base amount. The revival effect has a cooldown, and the current amount in the reserve is colored red or white depending on whether or not the effect is available. Aatrox fills the Blood Well by casting his abilities, with 100% of the health cost being stored in the Blood Well. The Blood Well slowly depletes if Aatrox has not taken or dealt damage recently.
Aatrox also gains bonus attack speed based on the contents of his current Blood Well, regardless of whether the revival effect is available.
Iron Man
Unique to Mordekaiser, Iron Man acts as a temporary, decaying, absorption shield that is generated by the damage he deals with his abilities. The resource bar is colored white.
Unique to Yasuo, Flow is generated by movement, dashing and teleporting, requiring a total of 4000 traveled units to be fully filled. Maximum Flow is required to use Resolve.
Flow is represented in Yasuo's resource bar and is colored grey while charging, and white once full to indicate it's a shield (as with Mordekaiser's Iron Man).
Resolve: Should Yasuo take damage from a champion or jungle monster his Flow will will turn into a shield for 1.5 seconds, after which- if it has not been broken- it fully depletes.
- Mordekaiser's Iron Man, Yasuo's Flow and Aatrox's Blood Well and are the only non-resource or alternative gating mechanics that is displayed in the resource bar.
- It is currently being considered to have Riven's Runic Blade charges displayed in the resource bar, in a visually similar manner to Rengar's Ferocity. [1] If this change passes, similar changes may also be applied to similar mechanics (such as Tides of Blood).
- When the mechanic was unique to Renekton, Fury was known as "Rage".
- When HUD animations were first revealed on the PBE, Tryndamere, Shyvana and Renekton's resources were described as Battle Fury, Dragon Fury and Rage, respectively. [2]
- When Riven was first released, she was not technically classified as manaless - she simply had 0 (+0) base mana and 0 (+0) base mana regeneration. She could purchase mana and it would be represented in her resource bar - allowing her to use and benefit from items such as and . This was hotfixed shortly after.