High Tech Taxi Booking: In some urban regions you can actually now book a taxi, pay for it in advance and even leave the driver feedback via an app. Taxi booking/feedback apps include Report a Taxi, Taxi Magic, Uber and Sedan Magic. This taxi technology usage is in its infant stages but shows great promise and is growing in both popularity and usage in urban areas.
And here’s a link to a New York Times article titled Taxi Rides Are Getting Smart By The App that discusses the new high tech taxi options:
E-Book Writer’s Cramp: The popularity of e-books has exploded in the last two years and this has led to a change in what many readers expect of their favorite authors. Once upon a time a popular author could work hard through the year and publish one book per year and keep both his or her fans and publishers happy. However, in the newly evolving world of e-books where readers can access, download and be reading a new e-book in seconds readers are expecting to be able to read more than one e-book a year by their favorite authors. This new trend has bestselling authors like Lisa Scottoline, Lee Child and John Grisham working hard to write that extra material each year to keep fans happy. And some authors, like Lee Child, have taken to writing shorter works and publishing them in between the publications of their longer annual works to keep fans happy.
Here’s a link to a New York Times article titled In E-Reader Age of Writer’s Cramp a Book a Year is Slacking that offers more insight into this new trend:
TV Viewing The Way You Want It: How people watch TV shows and movies is evolving. Todays’ Internet connected TVs and media streaming devices (i.e. Roku, Apple TV, Boxee, Google TV, iPads and other tablets etc.) are allowing viewers to watch more and more video content, frequently sans commercials and on demand. In essence, the evolving Internet technology allows more people to access the videos they wish to watch when the wish to watch them and this trend too is growing in popularity!
Here’s a link to a New York Times article titled A TV Schedule in the Hands of Whoever Holds the Remote that offers more insight into this growing trend:
Linda R.
Tech & Book Talk at SSCL 