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Originally Posted by sic
hi
I think paper is going away.
How long will it take? ... I don't know.
10-15 years I suppose.
Look at what happened in photography, now you cannot buy a fil camera any longer, it's gone digital.
Of course we'll need better resolution, colors, flexible display and what not... but it's coming.
As for Adobe I think they're well aware what this means to PDF.
They're smart folks, they'll figure it out. 
I think it can be more than adding reflow capability... depends on how "live" books will become with shared annotations, updates etc. |
Paper will never go away. It's the back up.
With photography if you don't print your pictures they will not survive the test of time. Most people I know print their pictures.
We do need to get away from ebabel and get a fix on a more adapted e-text standard.
We should still have locked books. Just take the example of Wikipedia who's had to lock certain pages from vandals, notably that of the President's bio.