Education
Students’ book bags will soon be considerably lighter, as e-books replace traditional textbooks within three years, predicts the New Media Consortium, an international nonprofit organization exploring media technologies.
Other advantages of the technology, such as ease of updating and sharing material and enabling multimedia experiences and online access, give learners a powerful drive to push textbook publishers to move more quickly to ebooks.
In addition, augmented reality with computer-generated imagery will be common on university campuses within two to three years, and gesture-based interfaces for computing will arrive within five years, according to the Consortium’s Horizon Report 2011.
Source: New Media Consortium, www.nmc.org.