"If I do not inspire love, I will inspire fear."
(Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus)
The June 25, 2010 landing in the English market's first magazine 3.0 (!?), in the background is Book a physical mixture + audiovisual electronic device. It seems that the cover * Includes on-screen video which can be contained and even space left to store video and incorporate itself. It is a traditional magazine with a cover animated visual, something like a TV embedded in a cover, without further interaction with the viewer.
What interests me now, from an anthropological point of the book as history of multimedia technology, is that the combination of media in this case creates a hybrid which, but for the primitive sound cards, books, yet we are not used, like the androids in which we're slowly becoming a force to overlap, and introduce the technology in our body, and not so much as thought of science fiction, creating anthropomorphic robots - we were not to want to read and inform us through the corresponding libroide-that the robot would bibliomorfo.
Despite the image of android robot of the future as bequeathed to us by science fiction, perhaps the monster created by Dr. Frankenstein still the most powerful this icon collective desire to give life to a set of previously inert elements, converted into machine mixing strength and scientific genius. Probably because the doctor does return to a human body-patch for several other other-the inert silence to the world of the living, where the monster struggles to live and feel full. This is the chip invisible that breathes as a mirror of a divine breath. Travel from there to the android Roy in Blade Runner, in its final farewell scene , it offers little change in the machine created to be like a man and willing to be fully in the consciousness of a fulfilled life.
The libroide comes, therefore, hand printed paper that is implemented, with some primitive-a multimedia electronic robot, as if to give a new and unexpected life to the old codex. A biblio-Frankenstein, against the model of our century, the tablet Ando, \u200b\u200biPad, which is pure metal robotic book aspiring to be more than book, humanoid in social interaction. Thus, the libroide to infiltrate into our lives and may you enjoy your golden years from now, in which paper and screen, ink and symbiosis can create unexpected bit waiting for one more book smart, "I always thought that only true if the reader is, while it is true that books create smart-intelligent readers, a book also more humanoid, where we reflect on its cover in our aspirations and, indeed, our vanities.
why I want to highlight another example libroide the phonebook that appeared last year in Asia, that only makes life complete by inserting your mobile phone in the center of the body of the printed book, and that teaches us page hit several videos and interactive games ... a child libroide to develop new relationships with small and increasingly digital natives. An interactive gimmick that traps mixed in the physicality and permanence of print, digital virtuality and volatility.
antes Many of these are run by marketing and the goal of a sublimation / provocation / challenge carnival on the cultural tradition by surprise that the hybrid produces publicly opposed celebrated as a new network. In addition to experience while creates a momentary excitement, no doubt open market - and perhaps a genetic monsters circus? - That in times of change, opposition, war, coexistence between supports and media are a reflection of how the old home without fear of robotic human body through (bookish now) on the one hand, and the mystery of what is like ourselves, but fabulous and buildable, on the other, and especially, travels within the social imaginary uncertainty and suspicion about what is not human but it closely resembles, in this case something that is not a book but it seems much, except for one detail: the revelation that turns on and starts move, and our digital face, as in a mirror, comes from the cover of that which we have a pure mechanization that could still control the stroke of page.
Prometheus was first stealing to the gods divine fire and the wisdom to humans, with these radically altered their environment, but Prometheus was punished for it. What will happen to the libroides? Will they create a new hybrid species difficult to accept, bookish talking about? Do we invade suspicious and unrecognizable forms? Have we changed already lectoides? What other aspiring libroides libroides or are already present but invisible? Can you think of new ones, now that we opened the science fiction book?
Meanwhile, as Deckard and Rachael ginoide at the end of Blade Runner , couple, man and machine in perfect bibliodistopía travel into an unknown future and unknown end.
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