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Originally Posted by CleverClothe
The only reason that offices provide magazines is because those magazines are too much of a hassle everyone to carry around themselves. What if you could have your whole movie, music and book library with you in one relatively small device? What if you could instantly buy anything else as well?
As Phogg said, offices will just start offering free Wifi, or perhaps not, but will probably stop subscribing to magazines. Though I think that this will happen more around the time that ebook and emagazine reading really saturates the market.
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I agree. Doctor's offices only provide those magazines to keep people occupied while they wait. If customers start bringing their own material, those magazines lying around will disappear. (I rarely see one I want to read, anyway.)
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Originally Posted by CleverClothe
People need to stop thinking that what we do "now" is how it should always be done. Instead, we need to think about why we do what we do, and what would change that.
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That's a key observation, something that applies to a great deal of our modern lifestyles. The ability to stay in contact, wherever you are, has already begun a major transformation of our lifestyles. In this case, the ability to carry all of your information and your entertainment with you, and possibly to allow people to stop trying to remember facts and concentrate on communication and knowledge-application skills, will touch off the next major transformation.