Is this the future of the books?

In our days we are becoming a society that is more virtual than real and everything that is around us means technology.
Designer Kyle Bean has created a design to show the world that the technology and the Internet are having an impact “in the way we source information”.

Going to libraries and reading books has become a rare situaton. We prefer to find the information on the Internet.

“Books also have personality - they have textures and smells which the internet can’t offer”.

To illustrate this issue he transformed a book into a laptop. The book was purchased at a discount bookstore for only £1.50, and he added some electrical components to light up the screen.

The laptop-book / book-laptop has even a CD-ROM drive complete with CD and a keyboard.

The book when is closed looks like a regular book and when opened like a laptop. The words “The Future of Books” is inscribed on the spine.

It looks like an ambitious project and I think in the future the paper books will die and the electronic books will replace them .

Or am I wrong?

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