Books of the coming century will all be printed leaves of nickel, so light to hold that the reader can enjoy a small library in a single volume. A book two inches thick will contain forty thousand pages, the equivalent of a hundred volumes; six inches in aggregate thickness, it would suffice for all the contents of the Encyclopedia Britannica. And each volume would weigh less than a pound.
Edison’s Predictions for the Year 2011 (1911) nabízí ještě pár dalších zajímavých předpovědí. Týkají se toho, jak bude vypadat svět v roce 2011.