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Sonist · 03-17-2009, 03:51 AM

O.K., paper will not disappear entirely. We still use stuff like parchment for highly specialized purposes.

But the digital age is here, and the naysayers are not the first, nor the last, to resist change.

Here is a quote from Wikipedia, to illustrate the point:

" In 1490, Johannes Trithemius preferred the older methods, because "handwriting placed on parchment will be able to endure a thousand years. But how long will printing last, which is dependent on paper? For if ...it lasts for two hundred years that is a long time.""

The printing press changed things then, tablets and e-readers are the harbingers of change today.

You guys saw that The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Shifts Entirely to the Web on Wednesday. It's just the first drop before the downpour.

I may still scribble on paper, but someone 50 years from now may well look at me as the "papyrus guy."

03-17-2009, 03:51 AM	#195
Sonist Apeist Posts: 2,126 Karma: 381090 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: The sunny part of California Device: Generic virtual reality story-experiential device	O.K., paper will not disappear entirely. We still use stuff like parchment for highly specialized purposes. But the digital age is here, and the naysayers are not the first, nor the last, to resist change. Here is a quote from Wikipedia, to illustrate the point: " In 1490, Johannes Trithemius preferred the older methods, because "handwriting placed on parchment will be able to endure a thousand years. But how long will printing last, which is dependent on paper? For if ...it lasts for two hundred years that is a long time."" The printing press changed things then, tablets and e-readers are the harbingers of change today. You guys saw that The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Shifts Entirely to the Web on Wednesday. It's just the first drop before the downpour. I may still scribble on paper, but someone 50 years from now may well look at me as the "papyrus guy." Last edited by Sonist; 03-17-2009 at 03:54 AM.