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Old 09-07-2010, 09:48 PM   #67
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Originally Posted by ardeegee View Post
Then there is no need to quibble over the "whole world" part of ebooks taking over-- just as there is no need to quibble over if electricity has taken over oil lamps, even though there are still parts of the world using oil lamps.
Sure there is, because you need to define your scope when you ask a question like that.

A lot of discussion I've seen like this fails precisely because scope isn't defined, and the person asking or those answering are making implicit assumptions, like the presence of the underlying infrastructure needed for it to happen, that simply aren't true everywhere.

The answer if you explicitly mean the developed nations of North America and Europe will be rather different than if you include the rest of the world.

What the answer to a question like this is depends upon where you are talking about when you ask it.
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