Our choice
by Al Gore · first published 2009
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An Inconvenient Truth explained the challenges of climate change - in his new book Al Gore takes the issue to the next, harder stage and proposes the solutions.
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…appropriate given what this event was all about, but can I also say that it’s extremely boring? What’s much cooler are the books that are possible with the tools Apple provides now. They are like Al Gore’s Our Choice (whose UI was phenomenally awesome), only even better (when looking at some details), also better integrated and (at least nearly) standards based. Oh, and their authoring tool makes it easy for nearly…
on “Apple announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author to "reinvent textbooks"” ↗…reading market for all types of books. More importantly, popular non-fictions will be developed as a new kind of e-books, which cannot even be fully presented in the traditional narrative form. Al Gore's Our Choice [1] is just an example of the first generation's interactive e-books. [1] http://pushpoppress.com/ourchoice/
on “The Flattening of Ebook Sales” ↗You might be interested in the work done by Mike Matas + Bret Victor for Al Gore's "Our Choice", I was expecting that project would be the first of a wave of digital books, but I guess it never happened. (Or maybe it did?) http://pushpoppress.com/ourchoice/ edit: Related: https://www.ted.com/talks/mike_matas…
on “Students learn more effectively from print textbooks than screens, study says” ↗