Hank: books will last as long as humans do but will not stay the same (2025)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: repeated (2025-10-24) · owner: Hank
In October 2025 Hank predicted that books, as stories marked on pulped plants, will last as long as humans do, but will not stay exactly the same thing. He restated in the same video that books have not always worked the way they do today and will not always work that way.
Told alongside: John: books will not go away (2025)
About: Book
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-24 | predicted | Hank thinks marking pulped plants with symbols that tell a story will continue for as long as there are humans, but not as exactly the same thing. | What Will Books Become? 00:01:56 |
| 2025-10-24 | repeated | Hank says the way books work today is not how they have always functionally worked, nor how they will always work. | What Will Books Become? 00:05:47 |
What is said about it
4 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? — recommendation: Hank points to the Comedy Wildlife Photo of the Year nominees, linked in the description, and would personally like the duck to win. — 00:06:26