Robot Authors

from The Guardian The rise of robot authors: is the writing on the wall for human novelists? Artificial intelligence can now write fiction and journalism. But does it measure up to George Orwell – and can it report on Brexit? by Steven Poole An industrial robot writes...

Books Are Alive!

from TIME Stop Saying Books Are Dead. They’re More Alive Than Ever BY LISA LUCAS / David Steinberger and Lisa Lucas / Getty Images Lisa Lucas is the executive director of the National Book Foundation, the presenter of the National Book Awards and a non-profit that...

Great Expectations

from WIRED THE ‘FUTURE BOOK’ IS HERE, BUT IT’S NOT WHAT WE EXPECTED by  CRAIG MOD HOTLITTLEPOTATO; GETTY IMAGES THE FUTURE BOOK was meant to be interactive, moving, alive. Its pages were supposed to be lush with whirling doodads, responsive,...