The future of reading?

Not AI at all. AI thinks for itself, like a human. That's what worries people about it. Have you seen the film Dark Star? There's an example of AI in that. (the idea of AI is noting new). A spaceship has the task of blowing up drifting planets. The bomb is set to hit the planet and blow up. It gets stuck in the bomb bay. But they cannot deactivate it. They go to tell it to shut off. But it tells them blowing up is its task, and the task has bee set in motion. They spend ages arguing with it. The film ends when they bomb says, "I think, therefore I am" and blows up.

What happens with AR is 'simple.' Buy a book, for example, that has AR facility. There will be a web address in it to download an app linked only to the book's content to a device such as a smartphone or Tablet. Point the camera in the device to a page, and the app recognises the image and can give, say, an animated version of it on the device's screen. How they create those is what I don't know! Adobe do some AR app, but it seems to be aimed at marketing. www.adobe.com/uk/products/aero.html

But AR can be used many ways, not just with books.

www.kinder.com/uk/en/applaydu

www.pokemon.com/uk/app/pokemon-go/

www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens

You too can be Tony Stark.