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Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern
Why does it have to be just one or the other? That is, what does it have to be ditigal or paper? Let it be both!
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Economy. Environment. Efficiency. All of those things lean towards the digital (obviously a debatable point, but one which I am confident will be QED to all soon).
The reasons you give to keep paper are, to be specific,
personal preferences, as opposed to
absolutes. They are not concrete reasons why we have to keep paper. And while you may not want to relearn your ways of doing things, the generations behind you have already learned the new ways, and are swiftly abandoning most of the old ways, leaving an open door for the change. In other words, if it doesn't happen while we're here, it'll happen soon after we're gone.
Simply liking something isn't enough to keep that something from changing, especially if there is new, viable alternative that has advantages over the old thing (or, at least, fewer disadvantages). In that light, the issue here is: How long will it take before the advantages of paper are clearly outweighed by the advantages of digital, and digital pushes paper unmistakenly into a niche market?
I give it two generations max... more likely one.