Hank: books will have more mini cliffhangers and short self-contained chapters (2025)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2025-10-24) · owner: Hank
In October 2025 Hank predicted that books will have more mini cliffhangers, and that nonfiction will come in self-contained chapters that can be read or listened to in five to ten minutes.
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| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-24 | predicted | Hank predicts more mini cliffhangers, and nonfiction self-contained in chapters that can be read or listened to in five to ten minutes. | What Will Books Become? 00:03:04 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2025-10-24 · What Will Books Become? — Hank says the functionality of books has changed a lot: books from a hundred years ago are harder to read because our minds are conditioned in a different world. — 00:01:56
- 2025-10-24 · What Will Books Become? — Hank thinks the way our attention now works might bring a functional innovation of books. (hedged) — 00:02:35
- 2025-10-24 · What Will Books Become? — Hank says chapters have shortened a lot over the last few decades. — 00:03:04
- 2025-10-24 · What Will Books Become? — Hank is working on a book and sees some chapters as scripts he will almost definitely adapt for YouTube. — 00:03:34
- 2025-10-24 · What Will Books Become? — Hank says Umberto Eco, smarter than him, was wrong that the book, like the spoon, hammer, wheel or scissors, cannot be improved once invented: the wheel keeps being improved. — 00:03:34
- 2025-10-24 · What Will Books Become? — Hank says that for a long period books were often published as serials, like subscription magazines carrying pieces of stories, before being bound into a single volume. — 00:03:34