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Originally Posted by barryem
In the past decade I've read a lot of reports that, due to tablets, the PC was dead. I've read reports that due to ebooks, print is dead. Others say that ebooks are in decline and probably dead or dying. Phones killed tablets. Tablets killed laptops. And yet in the past year I've bought new ereaders, tablets, laptops and even an MP3 player, which was reported dead long ago. The year before I bought a new phone.
I think when people say a technology is dead they just mean it isn't selling as much this year. It's slang.
Alive means it's the leading edge. Dead means it's just doing okay.
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As they say, "figures don't lie, but liars figure." I think if you look closely at who's doing the research (for just about all sides of this argument) you'll nearly always find conflict of interest and inherent bias. Research figures are usually "massaged" to "prove" a point -- the point they researchers started out to prove.