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I think a really disrupting and interesting field will be tablets as replacement for textbooks in education. The possibilities to create amazing educational mat

• revorad 16y ago
  These guys are trying - http://www.kno.com/ http://www.kno.com/ - but I think it's silly to literally copy the physical form factor of a textbook. I think textbooks will not be replaced by devices like this, but stuff like the Khan academy.
• eftpotrm 16y ago
  A few years back I was working for a supplier to academic libraries, who also did a lot of ebook sales to this market. In my final days there they were just starting to get interest from some institutions who wanted to buy Sony eBook Readers (as the best devices then on the market) preloaded with 30-50 books, then dish these out to students on some high-cost courses. They felt the students would prefer this (a not unreasonable belief with that volume of material) and it'd be easier for them to manage. So, yes, this sort of device (in the broad sense) will very likely replace textbooks at least partially. I saw it happening first hand a few years ago and see no reason it should have slowed down since.