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Friday Video: Hannu Rajaniemi: “The Future of the Book”
What defines a book? The content, the author, or the experience of reading it? What could books become?
Hannu Rajaniemi, author of science fiction novels The Quantum Thief and The Fractal Prince, argues that the books of the future will read us.
Rajaniemi is the co-creator of Neurofiction, a platform for creating fiction that changes in response to the emotional state of the reader. Neurofiction is powered by open souce software: https://github.com/fommil/neurofiction