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Calgary: University of Calgary Press. 2006. — 713 p.In 1994, the Canadian futurist, Frank Ogden, published The Last Book You Will Ever Read. One is reminded about Mark Twain’s remark: “Reports
of my death are greatly exaggerated.” Books will remain because they are extremely efficient ways of communicating organized knowledge and information on a given subject. At the same time, as McLuhan and others have made us very aware, books also have severe limitations. They are static and present knowledge in a linear way. To speak of the future of inter-networked communications and a shift from Information Communication
Technologies (ICT) to Universal Convergence Technologies (UCT) only in book form would be both paradoxical and a lesson in frustration.