Steve Jordan e-Books

E-books are:
Books converted to electronic files, as opposed to books printed on paper. They can be read on Desktops and laptops, PDAs and Palm Pilots, and Smartphones. Imagine carrying an entire library of books on a single storage disk!

Dedicated E-book Readers:
E-books can also be read on dedicated e-book readers and other hardware, like:

Sony Reader

iRex Iliad

STAReBOOK

Ultra-Mobile
PC (UMPC)

Great Resources:
For more info on e-books, visit:
MobileRead.com
Palm Addict.com
Pocket PC Addict.com
Pocket PC Thoughts.com
Project Gutenberg
Yahoo PDA-ebook group

To paraphrase, Tech Happens. It also tends to happen fast... so fast, that it's tough to predict the ramifications of developing tech, including potential problems, before it's too late.

That's why, as a futurist and writer, I like to keep an eye on tech to see where it thinks it's going... and to figure out where it's more likely to end up. And who knows? My next story might be inspired by something interesting in here...

June 2K8:
6.09.2K8: "Check engine"
6.14.2K8: Washington getting its lumps

May 2K8:
5.07.2K8: Leave it to Popular Science...
5.15.2K8: Another reason to ditch your SUV...

April 2K8:
4.05.2K8: Who cares about gas? I want my Avalanche!
4.14.2K8: Wind is backordered?
4.25.2K8: Living in Harmony
4.29.2K8: China's answer: Taxes and efficiency

March 2K8:
3.01.2K8: Right to light
3.19.2K8: R.I.P. Sir Arthur C. Clarke
3.22.2K8: Society against the digital riot
3.28.2K8: Even California is softening on the environment

February 2K8:
2.01.2K8: Food for Fuel? What a double-mistake
2.05.2K8: Aerial deja-vu
2.12.2K8: Random act of foolishness
2.19.2K8: An online voting proposal

January 2K8:
1.21.2K8: Election '08—the theme is "Green"... or is it?
1.28.2K8: Copyright must be fixed, not tossed

December 2K7:
12.01.2K7: Words without a voice
12.10.2K7: Arguing with fanatics
12.12.2K7: Shell dumps solar
12.19.2K7: Fed energy bill passes the buck... again
12.26.2K7: SciAm's road to U.S. energy independence
12.30.2K7: E-books 2007: Are we men, or vultures?

November 2K7:
11.01.2K7: Venture: Another alternative to car commuting
11.02.2K7: Gizmag compares hydrogen vs. batteries
11.03.2K7: Time's Invention of the Year
11.06.2K7: Out with batteries... in with ultracapacitors
11.17.2K7: Alternative Energy is smokin' hot... isn't it?
11.27.2K7: Amazon's Kindle takes off
11.27.2K7: CO2 to baking soda, to save the world

October 2K7:
10.01.2K7: British Library to digitize 100,000 old books
10.03.2K7: 50 years in space spurs thoughts of future in space
10.06.2K7: Music Industry vs. Thomas—Thomas loses
10.19.2K7: Pour-it-yourself solar panels?
10.22.2K7: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch?!?
10.26.2K7: Efficient cars on today's technology

September 2K7:
9.01.2K7: Publishing: The Castle analogy
9.08.2K7: Amazon's e-book push
9.18.2K7: ePub: The new e-book standard
9.25.2K7: Borders-Sony partnership follows Amazon

August 2K7:
8.03.2K7: Wanting energy independence isn't enough
8.06.2K7: "Phantom Loads" reach the mainstream
8.11.2K7: Subsidizing e-books with ads
8.12.2K7: E-book sales are up in U.S. and Japan
8.19.2K7: The dissatisfaction of "FTL" travel... solved
8.29.2K7: Bittersweet milestone

July 2K7:
7.07.2K7: Sweet Sony Reader deals
7.17.2K7: Playboy likes the Sony Reader... Prophetic?
7.18.2K7: UMPCs are for e-book reading, too
7.21.2K7: Dealing with the digital mass
7.23.2K7: The bad news about ethanol

June 2K7:
6.03.2K7: In-between computing with Foleo
6.08.2K7: First Foleo, then Eee PC
6.13.2K7: D'oh! Busted by international law!
6.18.2K7: Is Sony Connect going to strand the Reader?
6.20.2K7: High optimism for Adobe's new PDF/e-book format
6.23.2K7: How small can computers get?
6.25.2K7: Watching the waves

May 2K7:
5.27.2K7: Sequestering carbon in manufacturing
5.25.2K7: eInk is busting out all over
5.20.2K7: Roth's complaint: Age of books is at an end
5.01.2K7: Could DC Library fire serve as a wake-up call for e-books?

April 2K7:
4.27.2K7: E-books: It'll never fly, Orville
4.12.2K7: Music industry decides DRM is out
4.07.2K7: DST shift was a wasted effort
4.02.2K7: Next X Prize- 100MPG cars

March 2K7:
3.23.2K7: News flash: COPA is still unconstitutional
3.15.2K7: Movie remakes are taking the wrong tack
3.08.2K7: CompUSA is downsizing
3.05.2K7: Conserving energy with light

February 2K7:
2.21.2K7: UK Parliament dismisses anti-DRM petition
2.11.2K7: iTunes' Steve Jobs proclaims "DRM doesn't work"
2.10.2K7: The future of the NYT: Web-only

January 2K7:
1.06.2K7: Which bot is yours?
1.02.2K7: What is it?

December 2K6:
12.28.2K6: Lack of energy consensus breeds disallusionment
12.23.2K6: E-books not high on Xmas lists
12.07.2K6: The 40% efficient solar cell!
12.06.2K6: The Web still largely ignores the disabled
12.04.2K6: Biting my tongue

November 2K6:
11.25.2K6: RTF e-books = Good decision.
11.12.2K6: Students provide a design study on e-paper
11.03.2K6: LEDs to cut power use soon
11.02.2K6: E-books: The pawns have control of the board

October 2K6:
10.24.2K6: CRTs going out, flat panels coming in
10.19.2K6: Sony fans the fires of the e-book debate
10.13.2K6: 300 Million Americans. Sheesh.

September 2K6:
9.27.2K6: Selling through Sony?
9.17.2K6: Star Trek old is new again
9.12.2K6: Hiding carbon in plain sight
9.11.2K6: Energy's Future nicely detailed by Scientific American
9.07.2K6: Mini-conversion could be the future

August 2K6:
8.28.2K6: It's good to have a Crackberry
8.24.2K6: Holy Crap! We lost a planet!

July 2K6:
7.31.2K6: SUVs: From trucks to cars
7.23.2K6: How far off was he? Carter's energy plan
7.17.2K6: Everyone wants to be "Green"
7.06.2K6: Who Killed The Electric Car?

June 2K6:
6.24.2K6: Go see An Inconvenient Truth
6.21.2K6: Whotta (Time) cover!
6.16.2K6: End of a personal era
6.13.2K6: Global warming and the fall of the U.S.?
6.01.2K6: Nanoprinting the future

May 2K6:
5.26.2K6: 30% of Americans want scooters?!?
5.22.2K6: Hack your Prius!
5.08.2K6: Here come the scooters
5.05.2K6: RFIDs secure? Not by a long shot
5.04.2K6: The Scuderi engine: It begins anew

April 2K6:
4.25.2K6: DMCA II: Losing more rights, one medium at a time
4.20.2K6: Quit whining, stop driving, and VOTE, damn you!
4.08.2K6: The Pain of DRM

March 2K6:
3.16.2K6: IBM won't see The Next Big Thing
3.13.2K6: Homesourcing—finally, an idea that makes sense
3.09.2K6: Just don't get it, do you?
3.08.2K6: e-Ink Readers are coming
3.05.2K6: Website Alert

February 2K6:
2.23.2K6: I know when I've been insulted
2.22.2K6: BusinessWeek likes e-books' future
2.20.2K6: It's the Phone, Stupid
2.10.2K6: Race in SF
2.01.2K6: The Technocratic Response

January 2K6:
1.27.2K6: American Auto Bailouts? We Don't Think So
1.23.2K6: Vintage TV for Video iPods
1.20.2K6: First TL Entry... Taxing virtual property... Fed threatens online privacy (yet again)

I have been making observations about technology, alternate energy, science, and their impact on popular culture, since my first website in 1996. I can't stop... I'm addicted to it! Fortunately, reading them doesn't "infect" anyone... but you never know, maybe you'll come across something in here that you, too, will discover you just can't do without...

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