Quote:
Originally Posted by Moejoe
I'd go one further. I think games/interactive experiences have the ability to eradicate leisure reading within fifty years. We'll have 3D without glasses within 10 years (according to recent reports), how much longer until we have full immersion experiences? Why read a book when you can live the story? Book reading is going to look very quaint in the future
|
That is silly. Motion pictures, televisions and video games did not eradicate reading. They do compete for leasure time, yes, and for some people maybe they can replace reading, but look at it this way: more than a century after the first motion picture was produced, here we are on the internet, discussing books