The future…The Institute for the Future of the Book is a think-tank thinking beyong printed texts, and beyond ebooks. What will be next?

And the past…44 years in the making, the Historical Thesaurus of the OED contains almost every word in English from Old English to the present, allowing users to explore words connected in meaning throughout the history of the language.

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