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Username: nadia
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Country: United States
Last Login: Jan-23-2010
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Despite Amazon, people like to visit bookshops. On a recent class discussion on the future of Amazon, I had the thought of a new bookstore concept that blends Amazon and the traditional bookstore. I was thinking of creating a physical bookstore that sells paperbacks without stacking any of them on its shelves. The shelves will instead stack thousands of kindles with book titles on them. The kindles will look like physical books using 3D holography. When a customer picks a kindle book to browse, the titles of all the books next to it change to become more relevant to the content browsed.
Because there's no physical paper inventory, there are no sections. The customer types a keyword in a little screen and all the titles near him change. It's like browsing online in a physical space. When the customer decides which books to buy, he places the order, pays and laser printers at the back of the store print out the paperback. Books will be less expensive to buy and the experience of a visit to a physical location preserved. The second-hand bookstore will probably not be able to compete and die. |
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Which events would you not want to be able to predict? While we often wish that we could predict what will happen in the future, I don't think that we would be happy if such wish was realized... |
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This is probably a very unrealistic thought. I am posting it in case any ambitious engineers might want to give it a go... |
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I've seen it at Singapore airport. It is free for everyone to use and get a good rest or sleep from a long flight... |
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I love to read books and I was thinking of a new business model for online bookstores. Allow customers who pay a monthly fee to either rent or buy as many e-books as they want... |
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...enteresting, bulls hit! We read heaps of words that accompany recommendations on the covers of books or on ads about books... |
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What if we had the ability to read other people's thoughts as soon as they are conceived? Wouldn't that be a great way to control our future? Say you asked someone to do something and while they take the time to answer with a yes or no, you can know what they're thinking, what holds them back or what excites them about your request! Wouldn't that kind of knowledge give you the power to shape any future outcome to your advantage?
If you could control the way a certain outcome will play out, isn't that a better alternative to our lack of ability as humans to predict the future? If being able to predict the future is impossible, is being able to control it or at least shape its direction the next best thing to it?
There are many movies and science-fiction scenarios out there in which people can either predict the future or know it in advance... |
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What about a global business inventory index that is reported monthly online? I think this will help everyone know whether a global or national recession is on the way or not... |
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