Photo: #Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos presents the Kindle DX May 6, 2009 in New York City. The Kindle DX, a new purpose-built reading device, features a larger 9.7-inch electronic paper display and storage for up to 3,500 books. Amazon has also partnered with select major newspapers to offer readers discounts on the DX in return for long-term subscriptions.

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Living in a digital space

Broadcast: Midmorning, 05/28/2009, 10:06 a.m.

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The wave of digitization is coming as compact discs are tossed out in exchange for iPods, and the Kindle promises to make books obsolete. Midmorning asks what is the role of hard media in our lives, and what will we lose by moving from analog to digital format in our living spaces?

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  • Paul Saffo: Technology forecaster and futurist. He teaches at Stanford and is a visiting scholar in the Stanford Media X research network.
  • Merlin Mann: Writer and creator of 43folders.com, a Web site about finding the time and attention to do your best creative work.
  • Tom Fisher: Dean of the college of design at the University of Minnesota.

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