Institute for the Future of the Book

About us

We're a small think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens. We are funded generously by the MacArthur Foundation, and affiliated with the University of Southern California. We are located in Brooklyn, NY and London, UK.

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Projects

A list of our projects (roughly chronological)

• Expressive Processing »
• The Googlization of Everything »
• Sophie »
• CommentPress »
• Gamer Theory »
• MediaCommons »
• In Media Res »
• HASTAC digital learning report »
• Operation Iraqi Quagmire »
• The Holy of Holies »
• Without Gods »
• IT IN place »
• The Gates Memory Project »
• if:book »

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if:book

if:book is our blog, the daily record of our inquiry into a wide range of topics, all in some way fitting into the techno-cultural puzzle that is the future of reading and writing.

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Recently

• and now we have an ipad »
• how discourse on the web works »
• reading vs writing »
• how has the the Internet changed the way you think? »
• is Google good for history? »
• the zeitgeist checks in to the consumer electronics show »
• the other side of the long tail »
• smart thinking from Mitch Ratcliffe »
• the final cut »
• when we get what we want »