Combine a paper book with software? Whatever next? Jenny Benjamin discovers a surprising education duo One of the favourite predictions of the IT (information technology) prophets is the imminent death of the book. In the future, they tell us, we'll read only from monitors, if, that is, we read at all. Talking text, voice command and touch screens will make reading, writing, and even typing, obsolete. Well, all I can say is, don't hold your breath. The book, that anachronistic wad of non-interactive paper, seems...