A project of the Institute for the Future of the Book: This blog is the public mind space of the Institute for the Future of the Book, a New York-based think tank dedicated to inventing new forms of discourse for the network age. if:book covers a wide range of concerns, all in some way fitting into the techno-cultural puzzle that is the future of ideas. When we’re not writing this blog, we build open source software and lead publishing experiments with authors, academics, artists and programmers.