"In the next five years in Graydon Carter’s world, you’ll walk onto a plane, or a subway, or a soon-to-be-invented mode of transport, and you’ll tuck a little electronic book under your arm. Inside that little book, which will be very expensive at first but soon will cost $150, there’ll be a series of mylar “pages,” and there will be small buttons off to the side, and once you hit one of them, whoooosh, words and photos from Vanity Fair will suddenly appear. 'You’ll subscribe to five magazines and six newspapers,' Mr. Carter said. 'That is what I see as the future. … That I know is coming.' 'Ultimately, there will be some sort of device!' said Peter Meirs, the vice president of production technology at Time Inc." [NYO]

Um, you mean like the $399 Kindle, which already exists? Which is very expensive now but will eventually cost less? That there are small buttons you can push where the words and photos from magazines appear? Where you can already purchase, download, and read Time Inc. titles like Time and Fortune?

Five years is SO far away!