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@ RadleyP:
Verily, paper combined with an ink-deploying device, is amazingly resilient, and useful.
Much of my rhetoric is just that--inflammatory rhetoric made to get a rise out of folks.
I like looking at new technology and imagining new, useful, peaceful ways to use it. Granted there are many limitations to keyboards, electronic touchscreens & styli, mostly cost and time, but there are some advances being made that bode well for a change.
As for your proposed exercise, I think that you had better include the proviso "and there's no electricity." Am communicating with you without even a thought of using paper, and I could do so in a number of ways, like using email, a phone, a sharp stick and some agreeable soil, or even my own voice.
But I take your meaning.
As for the superior tactile experience of paper over another display medium, yes, attending the opera is the best way to hear Wagner, the theatre the true means of appreciating Shakespeare, and a dank, dingy bar the best way to commune with Rock'n'Roll. However, there are digital versions of all these things that for storage and convenience are more than worth the loss of certain sensations in the everyday world. I don't need the text I read to smell or feel a certain way in order to fully enjoy it.
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