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Originally Posted by Argent009
I'm voting no, not because I agree with the author of the article or because I don't embrace the technology but because new technology has not proven to be a replacement for old ways of doing things in the past and probably won't in the future... ppththththtt!  |
"ppththththtt"?
Your points are good, but consider this: In the future, there may well be less and less literature, news and other material that will be made available
on paper. Society is realizing that paper use has become unsustainable and dangerous for our ecological situation. What will you do when you can't provide your children more than, say, 10% of the entertainment or informational material out there, because you refuse to "accept the electron"?
I disagree with your opinion that e-book technology won't provide a good replacement for the old way of doing things... I expect it to be much, much,
much better. Add that to an expected scarcity of paper-bound literature and news, and I think the rise of electronic text... and the fall of the personal "library" space... is inevitable.