
We all love learning new things, and I love learning them from books. Why do I like books so much, and are they still useful in the Internet era? What does the future hold for the humble printed reference book?

Instead of reading pages of facts and figures, why not grab a coffee and pull out an infographic? I don’t mean a page of pie and bar charts—find something with an epic colour scheme, graphic art and if possible, at least one meme reference.

If you think maintaining your privacy is a problem in the real world, and with the proliferation of CCTV you’d have a point, it’s nothing compared to online. Whether Google monitoring your search history, your ISP tracking the sites you visit, or Facebook monitoring, well, near enough everything, if you do something online…