
I was clearing out an old box in the garage and found this copy of Time Digital from 2000. I can't find much evidence of it online. It's focused on the hot new medium of e-books.
I assumed I'd be able to find the text of these articles online somewhere but I've not yet. If anyone wants me to scan them I can do that. UPDATE: Steven looked a bit harder than me. The lead article's here.
There's lots more here.
If anything illustrates how hard it is to do technology predicition it's the juxtaposition of all these pages about e-books and this single page at the back of the mag about MP3 players:
About the time this article was written Apple began working on the iPod, about a year later they launched it and it became the decade of music devices not e-books. I wonder if much-prophesised tablet will do something similar for books. Goes to show, technology forecasting should be pretty straight-forward - about markets, and consumer tastes and product improvement. But every now and then someone invents something radical and everything's wrong.