NEW YORK -- On Tuesday, I gave a keynote address at the O'Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) conference on the future of publishing.
The title of the talk was "Changing Times, Changing Readers: Let's Start With Experience." In it, I try to draw on my own experience writing about a huge range of media, from literature to television, to offer some context for new experiments in reading.
After all, we're reading everywhere, not just in books or magazines or newspapers, or on e-readers and tablets or even smartphones, but walking down city streets, searching for movies on Netflix, and on our television screens. We're living in an age not just of hypertext but hyperliteracy. We have to try to understand both how to keep the promises of everything we've achieved in the past and enlarge the possibilities what we can do in the future.
The whole TOC conference was remarkable. I'll have plenty of more stories to share related to it later this week.
Meanwhile, please enjoy this guy walking around on stage in a sweater and a big red beard, talking and moving his hands around and trying as hard as he can not to forget what he was just about to say.
