11th Nov 2004
“DO NOT PUT THE BOOK IN YOUR MOUTH. THE BOOK IS NOT FIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.”
By stipulation of this agreement, the BOOK includes all material printed on pages affixed to the binding at the time of purchase. The BOOK is also deemed to include any marginal notations made by you or any other user, authorized or unauthorized, and to include any and all ideas, notions, plans, designs, or intuitions formed by you, whether or not fixed in tangible form, during use of the BOOK or within thirty (30) minutes before or after its use.
This agreement is a binding “flip-wrap” agreement; you agree to be bound by its terms by opening, reading, or flipping through the BOOK. If you do not agree to these terms, close the BOOK, place it back on a nearby shelf with the cover in a forward-facing position, and forget all of its contents. You may find it difficult to forget the contents of the BOOK. Do not be alarmed.
OK, imagine an alternate future for the book than too many people envision (i.e., it’s ulitmate demise). Imagine a time when each book contains an “End-Reader License Agreement (’ERLA’)”, where how many lines you can read aloud is dictated at the very beginning, and where your right to purchase anything approximating a “fresh wipe” is definitely *not* protected. And where the Limited Warranty of the book tells you: “The READER’S sole remedy under this warranty shall be words of acknowledgement, rebuke, and/or ridicule.”
Get a humorous glimpse with a sci fi bent of the future book from the FutureFeedForward novel (.pdf):
Best sf site on the net spawns a novel
[c/o Boing Boing 11 nov '04]
The first chapter is up for now, and the book is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. So very cool.
Boing Boing is just an internet playpen of darn good fun.
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