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Get plugged into a fantastic new project – The Electric Bookshop – where anyone can take part in live interactive debates…

Nightingale’s Playground was partly inspired by an old 8-bit computer game called The Sentinel – a unique and haunting strategy game devised by genius programmer Geoff Crammond that baffled magazine reviewers when it was originally released back in the 1980s. 

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The film has divided opinion. Are these brilliant and inspiring new ways to think about the book? Or are they familiar ideas, mocked up on something like the current tech, for us all to usefully interrogate? Or are the ideas old hat, much less than we would hope for from thought-generators like IDEO?

Technology becoming an extension and replacement of our bodily and mental functions…

And gamebooks are excitingly disruptive. They subvert the medium of the book, turning something profoundly well-established, entwined with our civilisation’s every achievement, into a game where you get to pretend to stab an Ork in the face.

Dickens no doubt lost sleep over these many happy American readers who paid little for their books and for whom books by English authors were particularly cheap to buy. The Land of the Free began to look to him like the land of the freeloaders.

The Literary Platform Live will be taking place at this year’s Tools of Change conference at Frankfurt Bookfair on 5 October 2010 from 10.30 – 11.30am.

It is a banality to reflect that the illusion of continuous technological progress is just that; the same can be said of economic growth. So what other futures might publishing have? And what if those futures look more like the past?