[PAR35]

I guess the next step (to get around the limited selection) would be to burn DVDs on demand, fully utilizing the "long tail" to maximize revenue. So basically the machine will contain a number of blank DVDs with a massive pipeline to the Internet. A customer at home orders an obscure movie from say 1947, and the machine downloads the movie from the company's servers, burns the DVD and has it ready by the time the customer gets to the machine. Now that would be impressive!

Same thing could be done for books. High speed printers and binders, rather than huge buildings that warehouse books.

[max americana]

The L.A. Public Lib does the online versions now, instead of housing the books but limited, for now.

[dangerdoc]

“Same thing could be done for books. High speed printers and binders, rather than huge buildings that warehouse books.”

Or someone could invent a low power device that could store and display multiple books.