Nicholas Negroponte? M. G. Siegler? William Deresiewicz? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Predicting the technological future is extremely difficult. More than a decade ago Nicholas Negroponte, the head of the MIT Media Lab, predicted that books would not exist in about five years. He meant that the popularity of paper books would decline, and ebooks … Continue reading "Quote Origin: Books Will Not Exist in About Five Years"