Grant Snider, an illustrator and cartoonist, draws the weekly online strip “Incidental Comics” for the New York Times. In this edition he takes a whimsical look at ‘The Book of the Future.’

Charles McCathieNevile, Chief Standards Officer at Opera answers questions put to him by Mac Slocum for O'Reilly Radar. The topic: What will the browser look like in five years?

iA: "Technology often develops from primitive to complicated to simple. The web develops faster and is more client focused than traditional technologies. Web development is cheaper, more flexible and most importantly: everyone can contribute to its development. In concrete terms: Better interaction design, less graphic design. Better user experience, less debates about taste. Faster technology, more reliable design standards…"

C.W. Anderson of the Nieman Journalism Lab dusts off his crystal ball and foretells 2010 in all its glory.

Cody Brown: "News is important. It’s so important that leaving it to a group of people in an office downtown is and has always been irresponsible… we now have the technology to make this ideal more than a faith based abstraction… public can be counted on to share and disseminate its own news"

A YouTube clip of Wired's iTablet concept. Checkout the interactive info-graphics around [0.30].