While many have a soft spot for the feel of the printed page, it's hard to see a future where textbooks aren't delivered to students digitally. It's not just the benefit of taking the literal weight of textbooks off students' backs -- digital textbooks offer an opportunity to enhance the entire learning experience.
The infographic below explores these possibilities. Even calling them "possibilities" is likely incorrect. As things go, it is inevitable that we'll have schools going paper-free before we have mainstream flying cars. Damn you, science!
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Greg Voakes writes for TECHi about AI and technology and macro policy and the economy. Their TECHi archive includes 20 published pieces from 2011-2013, with coverage grounded in the topics, sources, and recurring themes in their bylines. Representative bylines include "6 ways people are making money from home in 2013", "5 inexpensive hobbies that pay for themselves", "8 must-have tools for traveling freelancers".
