Podcasts by This is not the future of the book

What do we call this thing? from 2022-02-21T04:06:16.264136

In which we (Baldur and Tom) sit in Tom’s kitchen and talk about the importance of naming things in interactive media and storytelling in general. It is almost exactly an hour long.

How did we get here? from 2022-02-21T04:06:16.262829

In which we (Baldur and Tom), again in Tom’s kitchen, cover a bit of the history of interactive media so far and why it’s important to be aware of it. We also talk about how most people aren’t a...

What does print do? What does digital do? from 2022-02-21T04:06:16.261859

The kitchen talks continue. This time we (Baldur and Tom) talk about: the differing qualities of digital and print; how they can complement each other; how they suffer if you ignore their streng...

What's holding us back? from 2022-02-21T04:06:16.261004

Where is our magical sci-fi utopia of wonderful brilliant digital things? Why didn’t the brilliant innovations in our digital past lead to a glorious present?

Inevitably this lea...

Avant-garde what? from 2022-02-21T04:06:16.260210

In this one we cover the following thingamajigs:

• Baldur talks about what it feels like to anticipate that the mainstream will coincide with your interests but then wa...
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Hackathons and hack culture from 2022-02-21T04:06:16.259349

In this episode we worry about digital publishing not moving forward to the future:

• How do we get ebooks and the like moving forward without wholesale destruction? Listen

Money? What money? from 2022-02-21T04:06:16.258288

Some thoughts prompted by Touchpress’s pivot.

• Touchpress, who...
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You are here. What now? from 2022-02-21T04:06:16.257466

Some thoughts on where to go from wherever you are. Most of us aren’t in the position of even trying to make the same mistakes Touchpress did. What approaches can the rest of us take to...

Moonshots vs infrastructure from 2022-02-21T04:06:16.256628

In this episode we cover a schism in digital media that traditional publishing has unwittingly played into.


Baldur explains what it is that makes people the most angry at him.
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The publishing system of production from 2022-02-21T04:06:16.255665

In this episode we cover conferences, production systems, W.E. Deming, David Pye, and more

• We start off by criticising the idea that conferences are educational. Bald...
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Don't call it a comeback from 2022-02-21T04:06:16.254426

Tom was in Montréal the other day for a conference and we recorded a podcast episode reviewing what has happened in the two years that have passed since the last episode.

In this...