Thread: CNN interview: Physical books gone in 5 years
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Old 10-21-2010, 01:08 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by paaThaka View Post
Negroponte hasn't been in the news for a while, so he had to (again) cook up something a little bit outlandish

Maybe mostly gone in 50years.

Somebody should send Negroponte a recent release vinyl or a cd - just as a reminder that things have a tendency to stick around for longer than home-grown futurists imagine.
Exactly.
Why do cinemas still exist, even after the era of TV, VHS, DVDs and now Blue-Rays?
And why do people still buy DVDs or Blue-Rays, although downloading would be so much easier?
Lots of my friends, although being quite tech savvy in other areas, refuse such downloadable material.
"I want to have my book and my shelf" or "I want to see my DVD collection grow" are the main reasons I hear.
Else eBooks, MP3s and DivX could have taken over 10 years ago...
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