December Theme: The Gift of the Book Machine?

A few months ago the bloggers of 'Smack Dab in the Middle' played around with the topic of Digital Books and the Future... (or something like that). Yesterday, I came across this blog (posted below). It contained some interesting thoughts on the future of books...

http://blog.speculist.com/scenarios/the-coffee-shop-take-over.html

And it also contained this video...

Could this be the future for those of us who still desire a physical book?

Future Mom- When I was your age we used to go to a place called a book store. It was filled with endless rows of books on shelves. We would walk around for hours just looking at them...

Future Son- You mean you didn't have e-books or Book Machines? And why would you walk around? Didn't you have robo scooters back then?

This has been a lazy post by somebody who is very behind on his current deadline.

Mike 'Not a Book Machine' Townsend