Living in the future

Watching some 'classic' DS9 the other day something frightening occured to us. Being passed around, poked and studied, these devices are all over the space station.

They're iPads.

The same thing happens when we're travelling around London. Some tube stations have projectors which play video adverts on the walls opposite the platforms.

We're living in the future.

Technology of the written word

I should go and work in the library more, as it's there that interesting things pop out of my head. Here's one, thinking about literacy, society, technology and the future:

Is it our goal to widen literacy participation to the point at which 100% of the population are actively taking part in the literacy practices that will define our places in such a society? What would such a society look like and sound like? What is the technology of the written word now making possible?