{"id":1398,"date":"2010-04-01T16:12:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T16:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2010-04-01T16:12:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T16:12:03","slug":"future_of_publishing_-_not_re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/01\/future_of_publishing_-_not_re\/","title":{"rendered":"future of publishing?  &#8212; not really"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People keep sending me links to this Dorling Kindersley video expecting I&#8217;ll love it. Actually, although i find it cute in its construction, i think it&#8217;s fundamentally inaccurate in both directions. Young people are not as vacuous as portrayed in the &#8220;forward&#8221; direction. &#8220;Reverse&#8221; is even worse, as it suggests that no real cultural change is underway. Frankly i see this video as a dream piece constructed to reassure middle-aged intellectuals that the seismic shifts which are upending life as we know it are not really happening.<br \/>\n<object width=\"611\" height=\"368\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Weq_sHxghcg&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;hd=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Weq_sHxghcg&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;hd=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"611\" height=\"368\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People keep sending me links to this Dorling Kindersley video expecting I&#8217;ll love it. Actually, although i find it cute in its construction, i think it&#8217;s fundamentally inaccurate in both directions. Young people are not as vacuous as portrayed in the &#8220;forward&#8221; direction. &#8220;Reverse&#8221; is even worse, as it suggests that no real cultural change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}