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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Contrary to what some people believe, new technology is not all benefit and old technology is rarely entirely obsolete. At best, the new stuff is revolutionary. At worse, it is wasteful. If you choose appropriately, choose the best of both worlds, we can let the revolutionary be. If you choose inappropriately (favoring either new or old), you end up with a very inefficient world. I'd mention my favorite example, the automobile, but that probably belongs in the politics and religion forum.
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For literature, I see absolutely no place for paper. For textbooks, business, science, etc, paper still has a function until technology catches up. Once that happens, then paper will be of no use whatsoever for books of any sort.